verbs with transitive counterparts) than die-type (unaccusative verbs without transitive counterparts ... This paper examines Korean learners’ difficulties with English unaccusative verb acquisition. 41 high ... It is suggested that the results of this study can be applied to learning and teaching unaccusative verbs
The present paper addresses Korean EFL learners’ acquisition of psych-verb and unaccusative constructions ... Korean learners’ interlanguage psych-verb constructions and unaccusative constructions are marked by ... The comparison of the learner performances between psych-verb and unaccusative constructions revealed
, unaccusative verbs in Korean and Chinese language and reviewed the definition and subcategories of ... We clarified the criteria, types, characteristics of ergative verbs, absolutive verbs, unergative verbs ... number of ergative verbs which mainly focusing on verb-complement construction.
claims that the unergativity or unaccusativity of a verb is based on the meaning of the verb. ... The Unaccusative Hypothesis loses its predictive power if a certain verb can be both unergative and unaccusative ... Manner-of-motion verbs show both unergative and unaccusative behavior, namely the variable behavior.
Unaccusative verbs are intransitives which will not easily take the adverb carefully. ... With an unaccusative verb, the subject is affected by the action but does not count as responsible for ... So it’s unaccusative as well.
reports on an experimental study that investigates Korean EFL college students" acquisition of English verbs ... devised specifically to examine how the distinction of the three types of transitivity alternation verbs ... - unaccusatives, middles, and passives (all with non-agent subject on the surface) - is revealed in
Unaccusative The former is a verb like groan in a sentence such as 'He was groaning' which has an AGENT ... VP shells in transitive, unergative, unaccusative, raising and locative structures (41) He read the book ... The latter is a verb which has a THEME role. (44) a. Shall we lunch? b. Why not guess?
We called the bold-printed verbunaccusative predicates. ... Next as the complement of the main verb, it merges with verb, found. ... He does want [to scare them] As a conclusion, the verb seem is a raising predicate, but the verb want