Arguments and Case: Explaining Burzio S Generalization

(Book #34 in the Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today Series)

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The ideas presented by the contributions in this volume originated in a workshop on Burzio's generalization. Burzio's Generalization (BG) states that a verb which does not assign an external theta-role to its subject does not assign structural accusative Case to an object and conversely. It connects cross-linguistic similarities between e.g. passives, raising verbs, and unaccusatives. However, it does so by linking very different properties of a predicate...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:155619918X

ISBN13:9781556199189

Release Date:September 2000

Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Company

Length:255 Pages

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Arguments and Case: Explaining Burzio S Generalization

(Book #34 in the Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today Series)

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