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Traces of earlier Proto-Indo-European and its active alignment in German: the impersonal passive constructions
No full textUnaccusativity
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My research is an attempt at suggesting a cross-linguistically valid definition of verbs characterized
by unagentivity and affectedness such as “burn”, “die”, “sink”, “fall”, “slide”, etc., which according
to the present analysis constitute the semantic core of unaccusativity. Both synchronic and
diachronic approaches are followed. Various definitions have been attributed to these verbs
(eventives, anticausatives, transformatives, inchoatives, decausatives). Although Perlmutter &
Postal (1984) classify unaccusative verbs on the basis of their syntactic behavior, they also argue
that the syntactic expression of arguments is always determinable on the basis of the meaning of the
verb, so that some correspondence can be established between unaccusativity and some verb types
(predicates of existing and happening: “exist”, “happen”, “transpire”, “occur”, etc.; duratives:
“last”, “remain”, “stay”, “survive”, etc). Historical (Delbrück 1897; Benveniste 1950; Lazzeroni
1990, 2001) and Typological (Kemmer 1993; Klaiman 1991) Linguistics, on the other hand, have
given further contributions: the meanings of unaccusative verbs widely correspond to the media
tantum (or deponentia) identified by Delbrück (1897) and Benveniste (1950) and to the ten middle
types enumerated by Kemmer (1993: 16-20). On the basis of Hopper-Thompson's Transitivity Scale
(1980) and the Cognitive-Semantic Approach (Rosch, Lakoff, Lazzeroni etc.) the hypothesis can be
put forward that the verbs characterized by unagentivity and affectedness are to be regarded as
Prototypical Unaccusatives
Aspetto e Azione nell'antico alto tedesco della traduzione dell'Harmonia Evangeliorum di Taziano. Un confronto con il gotico
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Trattamento delle salmonellosi nel pollo con Apramicina.
No full textThe efficacy of Apramycin given orally at the dose levels of 0,250 and 125 mg/l for 3 days to chicks experimentally infected with Salmonella typhimurium has been evaluated. The results show that Apramycin at dose level of 500 mg/l for 3 days was the most successeful treatment for the control of mortality and salmonella excretion
author-bios-SRD-19-0063.R1 – Supplemental material for The Network Structure of Police Misconduct
No full textSupplemental material, author-bios-SRD-19-0063.R1 for The Network Structure of Police Misconduct by George Wood, Daria Roithmayr and Andrew V. Papachristos in Socius</p
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