This book is an exploration of the syntax of external arguments in transitivity alternations
from a cross-linguistic perspective. It focuses particularly on the causative/anticausative …

The article analyses English adjectival participles, arguing that (i) there is a previously
unrecognized type of adjectival participle which expresses an inprogress situation;(ii) …

In this paper, we argue that adjectival passives across languages do not seem to differ in
terms of the presence/absence of verbal layers (v, Voice), and we provide morphological …

Due to their hybrid nature, German adjectival participles display properties of both adjectives
and verbs. In particular, their verbal behaviour is evidenced by the restricted availability of …

Morphologically Derived Adjectives in Spanish Page 1 Morphologically Derived Adjectives in
Spanish Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics Antonio Fábregas 30 John Benjamins …

The syntactic and semantic properties of nonfinite verb categories can best be understood in
relation to and distinction from the corresponding properties of finite verb categories. In order …

A large part of the theoretical literature on Spanish Past Participles (PPrts) has focused on
the Aktionsarten restrictions that these items exhibit in absolute clauses and verbal …

This paper serves as an introduction to a special collection on the form, use and meaning of
past passive participles used in perfect and passive constructions. We discuss various …

In a series of sentence–picture verification studies we contrasted, for example,“… choose
the balloon with “… inflate the balloon” and “… the inflated balloon” to examine the degree …

This paper addresses a long-standing problem of argument realization patterns with short
and long form adjectives and participles in Russian: long forms can be used in both …