Unaccusativity

[Bert Peeters]

I have started to look at unaccusativity in a broad range of
typologically different languages, to try and improve on what
others have said regarding its semantics. Would those who know
of languages that are said to have unaccusative verbs please
tell me which verbs are (or can be) unaccusative, and why these
verbs (rather than others) are deemed to be unaccusative? It does
not matter which language(s) you work on or know of (accusative
or ergative, fixed word order or non-configurational...), all
information (including if at all possible references to the
literature) is welcome.

Thanks to all. I'll summarize if there is sufficient interest.

Bert Peeters

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Dr Bert Peeters - School of English & European Languages and Literatures
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