In linguistics, an unaccusative verb is an intransitive verb whose grammatical subject is not a semantic agent. In other words, the subject does not actively...

sentence "They fall and die" are unaccusative verbs, since usually they are not responsible for falling or dying but still the verb is intransitive, meaning it...

"ergative verb" has also been used for unaccusative verbs, and in most other contexts, it is used for ergative constructions. Most English verbs can be used...

directly. Examples of anticausative verbs are break, sink, move, etc. Anticausative verbs are a subset of unaccusative verbs. Although the terms are generally...

subject-verb. However, verb-subject is used if the verb is unaccusative or by discourse pragmatics. In Tokelauan, the noun phrases used with verbs are required...

A modal verb is a type of verb that contextually indicates a modality such as a likelihood, ability, permission, request,suggestion, order, obligation...

the morphology whether the verb in Sentence (8) is an active voice unaccusative verb or a middle voice anticausative verb with active morphology. Since...

intransitive verbs; unaccusative and unergative. Unaccusative verbs are subdivided into "pure unaccusatives" and alternating unaccusatives (unaccusatives that...

Adyghe verbs Arabic verbs Ancient Greek verbs Basque verbs Bulgarian verbs Chinese verbs English verbs Finnish verb conjugation French verbs German verbs Germanic...

structures underlyingly: unaccusative verb: __ [VP V NP] unergative verb: NP [VP V] The following is an example from English: In (2a) the verb underlyingly takes...

original (PDF) on 2006-10-08. Grahek, Sabina (2002). "Alternating unaccusative verbs in Slovene" (PDF). Leeds Working Papers in Linguistics. 9: 57–72....

traditional grammar of Modern English, a phrasal verb typically constitutes a single semantic unit consisting of a verb followed by a particle (e.g., turn down...

express the passive meaning is using middle voice lexical forms or unaccusative verbs, e.g. épül: "build"/ intransitive (cf. épít "build"/ transitive),...

Germanic languages, a strong verb is a verb that marks its past tense by means of changes to the stem vowel. A minority of verbs in any Germanic language...

in the perfect system. Defective verb Inchoative verb Reflexive verb Unaccusative verb "deponent". Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary. Merriam-Webster. Pennington...

verbs.: 19  Such verbs are also called labile verbs (or "ergative verbs"). Confusingly, verbs of this type have also been called unaccusative verbs,...

some linguistics theories, a stative verb is a verb that describes a state of being, in contrast to a dynamic verb, which describes an action. The difference...

regular verb is any verb whose conjugation follows the typical pattern, or one of the typical patterns, of the language to which it belongs. A verb whose...

An auxiliary verb (abbreviated aux) is a verb that adds functional or grammatical meaning to the clause in which it occurs, so as to express tense, aspect...

Morphosyntactic alignment Nominative-absolutive language (Marked nominative) Unaccusative verb Legate, J. A. (2008). Morphological and abstract case. Linguistic...

verbs. But there is also a sizable number of so-called ergative verbs, which become unaccusative when there is no object. Consequently, these verbs switch...

A separable verb is a verb that is composed of a lexical core and a separable particle. In some sentence positions, the core verb and the particle appear...

linguistics, an impersonal verb is one that has no determinate subject. For example, in the sentence "It rains", rain is an impersonal verb and the pronoun it...

An attributive verb is a verb that modifies (expresses an attribute of) a noun in the manner of an attributive adjective, rather than express an independent...

Ergative verb Morphosyntactic alignment Split ergativity Symmetrical voice (aka Austronesian alignment) Transitivity (grammar) Unaccusative verb Unergative...

"They entered an ancient forest." Intransitive verbs of the type called unaccusative verbs, that is, verbs which have no voluntary agent, such as maneō...

intransitive (usually unaccusative) v2's never allow ergative subjects, regardless of the ergative case licensing properties of the V1. All the verbs except honā...

In linguistics, a defective verb is a verb that either lacks a conjugated form or entails incomplete conjugation, and thus cannot be conjugated for certain...

transitive verb is a verb that entails one or more transitive objects, for example, 'enjoys' in Amadeus enjoys music. This contrasts with intransitive verbs, which...

verb, vector verb, explicator verb, thin verb, empty verb and semantically weak verb. While light verbs are similar to auxiliary verbs regarding their...