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- Title
Is There an "ANTICAUSATIVE" Component in the Semantics of Decausatives?
- Authors
Paducheva, Elena V.
- Abstract
In this paper Russian decausatives are claimed to be formed from those causative verbs that allow non-agentive subjects, so that the main difference between decausatives and passives is that a decausative excludes participation of a volitional Agent in the concept of the situation. Decausativization is presented as a shift of diathesis, which transfers the Object of a causative verb (with non-agentive subject) to the Subject position but preserves the Causer as an adjunct. The adjunct Causer, if not specified and thus irrelevant, may be deleted by means of a rule analogous to that responsible, e.g., for Unspecified Object deletion. The "Anticausative" analysis of decausatives, according to which decausatives denote a change that can take place spontaneously, is rejected: it is demonstrated that spontaneity of change is not an obligatory feature in the semantics of decausatives.
- Subjects
CAUSATIVE (Linguistics); SYNTAX (Grammar); SEMANTICS; COMPARATIVE linguistics; LANGUAGE &; languages
- Publication
Journal of Slavic Linguistics, 2003, Vol 11, Issue 1, p173
- ISSN
1068-2090
- Publication type
Article