Dan Everett: Unaccusatives and special meaning (reply to Martha McGinnis)

[Martha McGinnis]

The first comment that comes to mind is that the examples Martha uses to
illustrate symmetry are all nonliteral, frequent but idiosyncratic
constructions that do not seem to generalize. It is unlikely that one could
find similar examples with similar properties in other languages, especially
nonIndo-European. And if one did, I suspect that they too would be
nonliteral and of little generality.

But this gratuitous opinion of mine is not based on any research whatsoever.

DLE