So it’s Unergative. Professor taught us like a following chart. ... In (c)The students were reading, there are two reasons why it could be unergative. ... Unergative verb requires a subject that is consciously responsible for what happens.
Manner-of-motion verbs show both unergative and unaccusative behavior, namely the variable behavior. ... Mateu (2005) argues that the unaccusativity of manner-of-motion verbs, which are basically unergative ... of these verbs is a problem for Perlmutter's (1978) Unaccusative Hypothesis, which claims that the unergativity
This study reports on an experimental study that investigates Korean EFL college students" acquisition of English verbs (such as break and change) th..
(42) vP PRN v' He v VP ø +read V DP read the book (43) Unergative vs. ... VP shells in transitive, unergative, unaccusative, raising and locative structures (41) He read the book