Deconstructing Internal Causation

Hovav, Malka Rappaport

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“…To be sure, some of the verbs included in our sample are broader in meaning than their rough translational counterparts ( §3.1). We also noted that some of the verbs have figurative extensions, in which case they do not impose as strict selectional restrictions on their undergoer as their literal counterparts (see also McKoon & Macfarland 2000;Rappaport Hovav 2020). Nonetheless, it can be argued that the common denominator of the verbs in the sample, in their non-figurative senses, i.e.…”

Section: Change By Inner Predisposition and Dual Classificationmentioning

confidence: 73%

“…The data on the VECCs were drawn from the same Sketch Engine corpora as mentioned in Section 3.1, using the same methodology. 16 As above, the transitive percentages were calculated Rappaport Hovav (2020) claimed that English blossom and flower should be analysed as verbs of emission. However, this analysis is problematic for Romance 'blossom' and 'flower', which occur as resultative participles modifying not only the putative emittee, but also the putative emitter (cf.…”

Section: The Verbs Under Investigation: Formal Groupsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A distinction has been drawn between agentive and causative internal causation roots (Alexiadou 2014). It has also been argued that verbs of internally caused change are not characterized by a grammatically relevant property of their own and are indistinguishable from verbs of externally caused change (Rappaport Hovav 2020).…”

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Internally caused change as change by inner predisposition: Comparative evidence from Romance

Bentley¹

2023

J. Ling.

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This article investigates the morphosyntax of verbs of internally caused scalar change and the main facets of their meaning. Availing ourselves of primary evidence from Italian, French, and Spanish corpora, we argue that the verbs under scrutiny divide into three subclasses whose common denominator is that they encode ‘change by inner predisposition’ or change that is possible because of inherent propensities of specific entities. We understand inner predisposition as a feature of the content of the verbs investigated, which has relevance to the choice of the undergoer, alongside the cause of two of the subclasses. Apart from this feature verbs of change by inner predisposition are indistinguishable from other verbs of change. We argue against an agentive or generalized causative analysis, and we advance a proposal for the lexical semantics of representatives of each of the three subclasses and for the alternations in which they participate.

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Internally caused change as change by inner predisposition: Comparative evidence from Romance

Bentley¹

2023

J. Ling.

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On the distribution and interpretation of voice in Greek anticausatives

Tsiakmakis

Borràs-Comes²,

Espinal³

2023

Front. Psychol.

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This paper provides experimental evidence in support of the view that Greek does not have three productive morphological classes of anticausative verbs, but only two: the class of verbs that bear non-active voice morphology and the class of verbs that are morphologically active. Across two experiments, native Greek speakers are found to prefer for each anticausative verb either non-active or active voice morphological marking, in the presence or absence of explicit contextual information. It is also shown experimentally that native speakers prefer an interpretation that involves a specific cause for all anticausatives, especially when the existence of such a cause is favored by the contextual setting. Our empirical findings are consistent with the view that the Voice Phrase that is realized as non-active voice morphology in Greek anticausatives is expletive. From a theoretical perspective, we analyze the expletiveness of this Voice projection as the result of semantic redundancy: the Voice head of Greek anticausatives combines with a v head that encodes a redundant cause meaning component and is, therefore, interpreted merely as introducing an identity function.

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Sobre a incoatividade dos verbos terminados em -ecer em português

Pereira

2021

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RESUMO: A tradição gramatical portuguesa assume geralmente que -ecer é um constituinte sufixal característico de verbos incoativos, ou seja, verbos que exprimem o início de um estado ou processo. Neste artigo, procuraremos averiguar em que medida este proclamado valor aspetual dos verbos terminados em -ecer se encontra atestado no português contemporâneo ou em alguma(s) das fases pretéritas da nossa língua. Para esse efeito, analisa-se o significado de cinco verbos terminados em -ecer (adormecer, amanhecer, amarelecer, apodrecer, endurecer) ao longo do seu percurso diacrónico, com base nas atestações encontradas no CIPM - Corpus Informatizado do Português Medieval e em obras lexicográficas editadas a partir do século XVI. Os dados permitem concluir que, desde o português antigo, os verbos em -ecer, mais do que expressar um evento no seu início, denotam eventos que focalizam o estado final da mudança sofrida por uma entidade.

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Deconstructing Internal Causation

Cited by 3 publications

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Internally caused change as change by inner predisposition: Comparative evidence from Romance

Internally caused change as change by inner predisposition: Comparative evidence from Romance

On the distribution and interpretation of voice in Greek anticausatives

Sobre a incoatividade dos verbos terminados em -ecer em português

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