Lexical semantics
- The article discusses the structure of verbs in English and other languages.
- Verbs can be intransitive, transitive, or have a change-of-state meaning.
- Inchoative verbs express a change of state without a direct object.
- English tends to favour labile alternations, where the same verb is used in the inchoative and causative forms.
- Some languages have multiple morphological classes of inchoative verbs, with different degrees of marking.
- The causative morphemes are present in the verbs of many languages, usually appearing in the form of an affix.
- The idea of unambiguous paths states that an antecedent and an anaphor should be connected via an unambiguous path.
- Larson’s Single Complement Hypothesis states that every complement is introduced with one verb.
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