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Research paper thumbnail of Investigating the learnability of uninterpretable features with advanced adult L2 Greek learners

Research paper thumbnail of The learnability of uninterpretable features in adult L2 Greek: Developmental and L1 effects

Research paper thumbnail of Danavassi, T. (2011). The status of the unaccusative / unergative split in Greek-English interlanguage

This paper explores SV and VS order in L1 Greek/L2 English unaccusative and unergative predicates... more This paper explores SV and VS order in L1 Greek/L2 English unaccusative and unergative predicates at the syntax/lexicon and the syntax/phonology interfaces. Both unaccusatives (e.g. arrive) and unergatives (e.g. walk) are intransitives with one argument but in the former this argument originates in a VP-internal position and has a Theme/Patient role, while in the latter the argument originates in a VP-external position and has an Agent role (Perlmutter, 1978; Levin & Rappaport-Hovav, 1995). In non-null subject languages like English, the canonical SV order in both types of predicates derives from movement of the subject (S) to the TP specifier to get (nominative) case. In null subject languages like Greek, S is canonically postverbal both in unaccusatives and unergatives, with a pro at the TP specifier. The unaccusative/unergative difference is rarely manifested in the English input, given that only some unaccusative verbs may take an expletive there subject (e.g. There arrived two ...

Research paper thumbnail of Investigating the learnability of uninterpretable features with advanced adult L2 Greek learners

Research paper thumbnail of The learnability of uninterpretable features in adult L2 Greek: Developmental and L1 effects

Research paper thumbnail of Danavassi, T. (2011). The status of the unaccusative / unergative split in Greek-English interlanguage

This paper explores SV and VS order in L1 Greek/L2 English unaccusative and unergative predicates... more This paper explores SV and VS order in L1 Greek/L2 English unaccusative and unergative predicates at the syntax/lexicon and the syntax/phonology interfaces. Both unaccusatives (e.g. arrive) and unergatives (e.g. walk) are intransitives with one argument but in the former this argument originates in a VP-internal position and has a Theme/Patient role, while in the latter the argument originates in a VP-external position and has an Agent role (Perlmutter, 1978; Levin & Rappaport-Hovav, 1995). In non-null subject languages like English, the canonical SV order in both types of predicates derives from movement of the subject (S) to the TP specifier to get (nominative) case. In null subject languages like Greek, S is canonically postverbal both in unaccusatives and unergatives, with a pro at the TP specifier. The unaccusative/unergative difference is rarely manifested in the English input, given that only some unaccusative verbs may take an expletive there subject (e.g. There arrived two ...

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