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Telicity and Objecthood in the Acquisition of Unaccusativity : Mandarin-Speaking Children ’ s Interpretation of Manner-of-Motion Verbs
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Lu, Yaqiao Lee, Thomas Hun-Tak |
| Copyright Year | 2019 |
| Abstract | It is well established that telicity as an aspectual notion plays a fundamental role in the syntax-semantics interface, with participants delimiting telic events typically projected onto the direct object position (e.g. Tenny 1987, 1994; Hoekstra and Mulder 1990; Dowty 1991; Levin and Rappaport Hovav 2005; van Hout 2000). Such a close affinity between telicity and objecthood is also manifested in the split between object-taking unaccusatives (Perlmutter 1978, Burzio 1986) and subject-taking unergatives (e.g. Hoekstra 1984; Tenny 1987, 1994; Zaenen 1988, 1993; Hoekstra and Mulder 1990; Van Valin 1990; van Hout 2000; Randall 2007). For example, in Italian, intransitive verbs denoting telic eventualities, as identified by their compatibility with the adverbial in un’ ora ‘in an hour’, co-occur with the auxiliary essere ‘be’ in a perfective sentence (1a), qualifying them as unaccusatives. In contrast, verbs denoting atelic agentive processes, compatible with the duration adverbial per un’ ora ‘for an hour’, cooccur with the auxiliary avere ‘have’, an indicator of their unergative status (1b). |
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| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
