The Case of Unaccusatives

1988-01-01articleUse Siena air (University of Siena)583 citationsclosed

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Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation Language Development and Disorders Categorization, perception, and language

Abstract

A proposal is developed to account for the peculiar properties of the verb class of unaccusatives, most notably the so called "definiteness effect", in terms of Case theory and the theory of inherent partitive Case.

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