The problem with internally caused change-of-state verbs
The problem with internally caused change-of-state verbs
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内部引起的状态变化动词的问题
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2014
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A. Alexiadou
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A. Alexiadou
内致状态变化动词近年来在英语和希腊语等语言中被确立为交替动词，从而成为任何致使交替分析的重要组成部分。一般来说，这种类型的交替是不稳定的，因为在不及物动词和及物动词的用法中，使用的是同一种形式。然而，内部引起的状态变化动词在使役交替中的行为与动词（如open）的行为有着根本的不同，因为它们分为两个子类：一个主要接受使役主语（开花），另一个行为类似于open（发酵），也能接受施事主语。本文考察了英语和希腊语中内部致使状态变化动词的性质，并采用Alexiadou等人（2006，in press）提出的致使谓词句法分解方法对其进行了分析，根据该方法，致使交替是一种语态交替。我认为，主题的内部引起的状态变化动词的发酵类的及物性变体引入规范，VoiceP，因此，它不是主题上限制的作用的原因。开花类的主体在vP中被引入，因此被限制为causer角色。这两类内部引起的动词状态变化之间的差异也反映在开花类不可能经历被动化。
Abstract Internally caused change-of-state verbs have recently been established as alternating verbs in languages such as English and Greek, thus becoming an important component of any analysis of the causative alternation. Generally, this type of alternation qualifies as a labile one, as in both intransitive and transitive uses of such verbs the same form is used. The behavior of internally caused change-of-state verbs in the causative alternation, however, differs radically from that of verbs such as open, as they split into two subclasses: one that predominantly takes causer subjects (blossom), and one that behaves like open (ferment), being able to take agentive subjects as well. In this paper, I investigate the properties of internally caused change-of-state verbs in English and Greek, and offer an analysis thereof adopting the syntactic decomposition of causative predicates put forth in Alexiadou et al. (2006, in press), according to which the causative alternation is a Voice alternation. I argue that the subject of the transitive variant of internally caused change-of-state verbs of the ferment class is introduced in Spec,VoiceP, and as a result it is not thematically restricted to the role of causer. The subject of the blossom class is introduced in vP and thus is restricted to the causer role. This difference between the two classes of internally caused verbs change-of-state is reflected also in the impossibility of the blossom class to undergo passivization.