STRUCTURAL PECULIARITIES OF MIDDLE AND ERGATIVE CONSTRUCTIONS IN ENGLISH
Keywords:
Middle and Ergative Construction, Implicit subject, Position of Specificator, Teta-RoleAbstract
The article analyzes syntactic peculiarities of English middle and ergative constructions from the point of view of generative grammar. It claims that middle and ergative verbs generate from the same verb class. The main syntactic differences of these constructions are ergative verb marking of implicit subject with causer teta-role, and middle verb generation of position for two subjects.Downloads
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