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Chapter 10. Semi-anticausatives

Abstract

Based on data from Persian, this study argues that what I refer to here as “semi-anticausatives” behave like a canonical unmarked anticausative with respect to the agentivity tests. However, further investigation shows that they appear with a voice head. This is contrary to the previous assumption that unmarked anticausatives do not constitute a voice head (Schäfer 2008; Alexiadou et al. 2015). I argue that semi-anticausatives, among other things, may license hidden “agentive causers”.

Abstract

Based on data from Persian, this study argues that what I refer to here as “semi-anticausatives” behave like a canonical unmarked anticausative with respect to the agentivity tests. However, further investigation shows that they appear with a voice head. This is contrary to the previous assumption that unmarked anticausatives do not constitute a voice head (Schäfer 2008; Alexiadou et al. 2015). I argue that semi-anticausatives, among other things, may license hidden “agentive causers”.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction 1
  4. Chapter 1. Anaphoric potential of pseudo-incorporated bare objects in Persian 12
  5. Chapter 2. Persian quantifiers and their scope 44
  6. Chapter 3. Why-stripping in Persian 81
  7. Chapter 4. Middle Persian Ezafe 100
  8. Chapter 5. Ezafe and the article 130
  9. Chapter 6. Ezafe as a linking feature within DP 154
  10. Chapter 7. Mood selection in complement clauses in Persian 180
  11. Chapter 8. Three types of verb stem levelling in Tat 210
  12. Chapter 9. A null stem analysis of Persian copular verbs 231
  13. Chapter 10. Semi-anticausatives 263
  14. Chapter 11. The nature and licensing of hi:tʃ elements in Persian 282
  15. Language index 307
  16. Name index 309
  17. Subject index 313
Advances in Iranian Linguistics II
This chapter is in the book Advances in Iranian Linguistics II
https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.361.10kas

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction 1
  4. Chapter 1. Anaphoric potential of pseudo-incorporated bare objects in Persian 12
  5. Chapter 2. Persian quantifiers and their scope 44
  6. Chapter 3. Why-stripping in Persian 81
  7. Chapter 4. Middle Persian Ezafe 100
  8. Chapter 5. Ezafe and the article 130
  9. Chapter 6. Ezafe as a linking feature within DP 154
  10. Chapter 7. Mood selection in complement clauses in Persian 180
  11. Chapter 8. Three types of verb stem levelling in Tat 210
  12. Chapter 9. A null stem analysis of Persian copular verbs 231
  13. Chapter 10. Semi-anticausatives 263
  14. Chapter 11. The nature and licensing of hi:tʃ elements in Persian 282
  15. Language index 307
  16. Name index 309
  17. Subject index 313
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