Chapter 8 A More Articulated Approach to Causativity Alternation
In: Passives Cross-Linguistically
Author:
Mohamed Naji
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Abstract
It is commonly assumed in the literature that anticausative verbs are located in Voice. Based on data from Standard Arabic, we will show in this article that anticausativity and Voice are different. We will argue that anticausative verbs are merged in an independent, autonomous, head Caus°(ative). We will then present morphosyntactic and also pure syntactic arguments to support our claim about the existence of CausP(hrase) in the lower field of the morphosyntactic structure.