Verbs' unaccusativity in existential constructions

The Unaccusative Hypothesis(UH) advocates the dominance of syntactic structure in assigning semantic values to sentence arguments. The same thematic roles should only be assigned by the same syntactic configuration. In recent studies, however, the unaccusative hypothesis was highly contentious and...

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Main Author: Zhangyan Miao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Science-res Publishing 2024-08-01
Series:Journal of Child Language Acquisition and Development
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Online Access:https://science-res.com/index.php/jclad/article/view/148