different between unaccusative vs unaccusativity

English

Etymology

un- +? accusative, from the fact that in a nominative-accusative language, the accusative case, which marks the direct object of a transitive verb, typically marks the non-volitional role. In unaccusative verbs, the non-volitional arguments do not take the accusative case.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /??n??kju?z?t?v/

Adjective

unaccusative (not comparable)

1. (linguistics, of a verb) Intransitive and having an experiencer as its subject, that is, the (syntactic) subject is not a (semantic) agent.

Antonyms

• unergative
• transitive

Hyponyms

• intransitive

Related terms

• accusative

Noun

unaccusative (plural unaccusatives)

1. (linguistics) An unaccusative verb.
   • 1998, Eloise Jelinek, Voice and Transitivity as Functional Projections in Yaqui, in Miriam Butt and Wilhelm Geuder, eds., “The Projection of Arguments”

     We have seen that Unergatives and Unaccusatives differ in 1) permitting the derivation of an Impersonal Passive, and 2) in licensing purpose clauses, since Unergatives have active subjects, and Unaccusatives do not.

Antonyms

• unergative

References

• “unaccusative verb” in the Lexicon of Linguistics (Utrecht institute of Linguistics)

English

Etymology

un- +? accusative +? -ity

Noun

unaccusativity (uncountable)

1. The state or property of being unaccusative.