Datives as applicatives Page 19 Chapter 1 Datives as applicatives María Cristina Cuervo
University of Toronto This work investigates dative arguments within a theory of applicative …

This thesis is concerned with German psychological verbs, ie verbs characterized by the fact
that one of their arguments is associated with a psychological process. These psych verbs …

We discuss conceptual and empirical arguments from Germanic, Romance and Slavic
languages against an analysis treating anticausative verbs as derived from their lexical …

This volume explores the grammar of Niuean, an endangered Polynesian language spoken
on the island of Niue and in New Zealand, with a focus on the issue of predication. Since …

This article discusses verbs of change that allow a formally transitive construal that,
nevertheless, has anticausative semantics. Verbs forming such “transitive …

This paper focuses on the Experiencer Object (EO)/Experiencer Subject (ES) alternation in
Polish. This alternation is viewed here as distinct from the causative/anticausative …

The various meanings of SE/SI‐marked verbs (reflexive, inchoative, middle, and passive)
are described with the aim of pointing out the most prominent empirical generalizations …

Summary The Causative/Inchoative alternation involves pairs of verbs, one of which is
causative and the other non-causative syntactically and semantically (eg, John broke the …

In this chapter it is argued, on the basis of the evidence from Polish, that the traditional
Vendlerian classification of verbs is insufficient to accommodate Polish psych verbs. It is …

The goal of this chapter is to offer the reader a short introduction to the concepts, distinctions,
and notions that will be revisited in this volume, which is dedicated to the use of parameters …