24.902 | Fall 2003 | Undergraduate

Language and its Structure II: Syntax

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Lecture 12 Summary

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Lecture summary on unaccusativity, no passivization of unaccusatives, Burzio’s generalization, pseudopassives, resultative constructions as a test for unaccusativity, the famous ne-cliticization test for unaccusativity in Italian, and the semantics of unaccusativity.

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