Agentivity and stativity in experiencer verbs: Implications for a typology of verb classes
Agentivity and stativity in experiencer verbs: Implications for a typology of verb classes
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体验者动词的能动性和静态性：对动词类类型学的影响
DOI：
10.1515/lity.2010.009
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发表时间：
2010
影响因子：
6.7
通讯作者：
Elisabeth Verhoeven
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作者：
Elisabeth Verhoeven
经验宾语动词是一种偏离及物动词原型的动词。以往的研究表明，这些动词的一个子集是静态和非施事，并认为这种语义的特殊性占特定的非规范句法属性。本文表明，静态/非施事的经验动词是受类型的变化。实验结果表明，德语和现代希腊语中的部分经验宾语动词在施动性和静态性上与规范及物动词不同，而土耳其语、玛雅语和汉语中的经验宾语动词则具有规范及物动词的语义-句法特征。
Abstract Experiencer-object verbs are known to deviate from the prototype of transitive verbs. Previous studies have shown that a subset of these verbs is stative and non-agentive and argue that this semantic peculiarity accounts for particular non-canonical syntactic properties. This article shows that the stativity/non-agentivity of experiencer verbs is subject to typological variation. The empirical evidence comes from an experimental study on speaker's intuitions, which shows that some experiencer-object verbs in German and Modern Greek differ from canonical transitive verbs in agentivity and stativity, while experiencer-object verbs in Turkish, Yucatec Maya, and Chinese display the semanto-syntactic properties of canonical transitive verbs.