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unaccusative

adj
/ˌʌnəˈkjuːzətɪv/UK

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Italic *kaussā Old Latin caussa Latin causa Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin accūsō Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Ancient Greek αἰτῐᾱτῐκή (aitĭātĭkḗ)calq. Latin accūsātīvusder. Anglo-Norman accusatifbor. ▲ Latin accūsātīvusder. Middle French acusatifbor. ▲ Latin accūsātīvusbor. Middle English accusative English accusative English unaccusative From un- + accusative, from the fact that in a nominative-accusative language, the accusative case, which marks the direct object of a transitive verb, typically marks the non-volitional role. In unaccusative verbs, the non-volitional arguments do not take the accusative case.

  1. derived from accūsātīvus — “having been blamed”
  2. derived from acusatif
  3. derived from accusatif
  4. inherited from accusative
  5. prefixed as unaccusative — “un + accusative”

Definitions

  1. Intransitive and having an experiencer as its subject, that is, the (syntactic) subject…

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

  2. 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.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA