Changes in Psych-verbs: A reanalysis of little v

The present paper examines psych-verbs in the history of English. As is well-known, object experiencers are reanalyzed as subject experiencers in many of the modern European languages. I discuss one such change in detail, namely the change in the verb fear from meaning ‘to frighten, cause to fear’ t...

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Main Author: Elly van Gelderen
Format: Article
Language:Catalan
Published: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2014-12-01
Series:Catalan Journal of Linguistics
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Online Access:https://revistes.uab.cat/catJL/article/view/154