The Unaccusative-Unergative Dichotomy of Predicates. Is There an Unaccusative Mismatch in English?

The Neural Correlates of Linguistic Distinctions: Unaccusative and Unergative Verbs

Unaccusative verbs like fall are special in that their sole argument is syntactically generated at the object position of the verb rather than at the subject position. Unaccusative verbs are derived by a lexical operation that reduces the agent from transitive verbs. Their insertion into a sentence often involves a syntactic movement from the object to the subject position. To explore the neuro...

Unaccusative/Unergative Distinction in Turkish: A Connectionist Approach

This study presents a novel computational approach to the analysis of unaccusative/unergative distinction in Turkish by employing feed-forward artificial neural networks with a backpropagation algorithm. The findings of the study reveal correspondences between semantic notions and syntactic manifestations of unaccusative/unergative distinction in this language, thus presenting a computational a...

Acquisition of English Unergative and Unaccusative Structures by Persian EFL Learners

The acquisition of argument structures has been studied by a variety of second language acquisition scholars within the past two decades (Atay, 2010; Can, 2009; Chay, 2006, & Kras, 2007, among others). In the present study, ‘Predicate’ as the most substantial element of a sentence is investigated. There are three English verb-types which seem to be more problematic for Persian EFL learners: (a)...

Unaccusative Behaviors

Unaccusative Mismatches in Japanese'

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