unaccusative

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Intransitive and having an experiencer as its subject, that is, the (syntactic) subject is not a (semantic) agent.

   “The light-verb analysis sketched here also offers us a way of accounting for the fact that in Early Modern English, the perfect auxiliary used with unaccusative verbs was be (as we saw in §7.6), whereas that used with transitive and unergative verbs was have.”

2. isim An unaccusative verb.

   “We have seen that Unergatives and Unaccusatives differ in 1) permitting the derivation of an Impersonal Passive, and 2) in licensing purpose clauses, since Unergatives have active subjects, and Unaccusatives do not.”