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unaccusative hypothesis: a standalone construct

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Syntax

proposal that intransitive verbs fall into two classes whose single argument behaves either like a subject or like an underlying object.

In syntax, unaccusative hypothesis refers to proposal that intransitive verbs fall into two classes whose single argument behaves either like a subject or like an underlying object. This meaning comes from Perlmutter (1978) in Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society.[1]

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Nearby constructs

argument3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs fall2 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs hypothesis2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs

References

Perlmutter, D. M. (1978). Impersonal Passives and the Unaccusative Hypothesis. Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 4, 157. https://doi.org/10.3765/bls.v4i0.2198

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