Restrictions on reflexive and anti-causative readings in nominalizations and participles
This article discusses the absence of reflexive or self-caused readings in certain types of participles and de-verbal nominalizations, like the hanging of the suicidal patient and The suicidal patient was hanged yesterday. I argue that the “anti-reflexive” reading is not triggered by the presence of...
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| Language: | English |
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Septentrio Academic Publishing
2011-10-01
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| Series: | Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlyd/article/view/2028 |