Mono-eventive Verbs of Emission and their bi-eventive nominalizations∗
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چکیده
In languages like German or Dutch, the distinction between unergative and unaccusative verbs is borne out by a number of syntactic tests. Unergative verbs appear in impersonal passives while unaccusative verbs do not (cf. Perlmutter (1978)). Unergative verbs select the perfect auxiliary haben/hebben (to have) while unaccusative verbs select sein/zijn (to be) (cf. Hoekstra (1984)). Unaccusative verbs allow for the adjectival use of their past participle but not unergative verbs (cf. Zaenen (1993)). The syntactic distinction between unergative and unaccusative verbs correlates with a difference in the semantic determination of telicity and agency (cf. Dowty (1991)) in that unaccusative verbs are typically telic and non-agentive while unergative verbs are atelic and agentive.
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