Video 11.4: DP Movement: Unaccusatives
Andrew Carnie presents Syntax: A Generative Introduction. 4E Wiley Blackwell
Video 11.4: DP Movement: Unaccusatives
Unaccusative verbs are intransitive verbs that are effectively inherent passives. They have a subject that is a theme. The unaccusative hypothesis claims that this theme starts as the complement of the verb and moves for case reasons to the specifier of TP. Evidence from cognate objects, there inversion, auxiliary selection and ne-cliticization is presented to support this hypothesis.
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