A Semantics for Unaccusatives and its Syntactic Consequences

By Gennaro Chierchia. 2004

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Language and Linguistics

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Citations in the corpus

• The Origin and Content of Expletives: Evidence from “Selection” (2009, unknown): “…German and Greek, for example, the causing event of inchoatives can be referenced by by itself or by a PP headed by a preposition like from (Chierchia 1989, DeLancey 1984, Levin and Rappaport Hovav 1995, Alexiadou et al. 2005, 2006) 10 Alternative conceptions of direct causation are…”
• Reciprocal verbs and symmetry (2012, background): “See, for instance, Higginbotham's (1989) claim that root-related homonyms such as spray paint on the wall and spray the wall with paint are distinct entries derived from the same "theoretical predicate" (concept).”