O- and D-Predicates: A Semantic Approach to the Unaccusative-Unergative Distinction  

Oleh:

Kaufmann, Ingrid

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Semantics (Sebagian Full Text) vol. 12 no. 4 (Apr. 1995), page 377-427.
Topik: D-prediates; O-predicates; semantic predicates
Fulltext: vol 12, no 4, p 377-427.pdf (2.57MB)

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In this paper a conceptually based distinction between two classes of semantic predicates is proposed' D-prediates, which encode object defining properties, and O-predicates, which encode optional properties. While the distinction between the properties is conceptually motivated, the two corresponding predicate classes are defined with reference to a logically based nonon of'(predicate) field'. It is argued that on the basis of this distinction the differences in the grammatical behaviour of unaccusanve and unerganve verbs in German can be derived and do not require any form of syntactic representation because the properties that are usually taken to be an indication of the class membership of intransive verbs follow from the status of the properties encoded by the two types of semantic predicates

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