Unaccusative Verbs in Romance Languages

✍ Scribed by Ian Mackenzie (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2006
Tongue: English
Leaves: 243
Series: Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
The Ergative Analysis and the Unaccusative Hypothesis....Pages 1-16
Expletive Inversion....Pages 17-38
Partitive Cliticization....Pages 39-69
Bare Subjects....Pages 70-102
Perfect Auxiliary Selection....Pages 103-161
Past Participle Agreement....Pages 162-171
Participial Absolutes....Pages 172-181
Conclusion....Pages 182-186
Back Matter....Pages 187-230

✦ Subjects

Grammar; Syntax

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