This book is an exploration of the syntax of external arguments in transitivity alternations
from a cross-linguistic perspective. It focuses particularly on the causative/anticausative …

This paper investigates how argument structure constructions (see eg Goldberg 1995) are
used by Italian newspapers to portray gender-based violence (GBV), how their usage affects …

Italian is a Romance language, spoken in Italy–including the Republic of San Marino and
the Vatican City–as well as in the Italophone canton Ticino and in the canton Grisons, in …

This paper focuses on basic valency orientation in Latin, based on the typology laid out by
Nichols, Peterson and Barnes (2004). The data analyzed shows that Latin does not feature a …

The (anti) causative alternation, that is, the alternation whereby languages contrast
intransitive verbs expressing spontaneous events with transitive ones expressing externally …

This article presents a comprehensive survey of anticausativization within Gyalrongic
languages, a group of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in Sichuan, China, contributing …

This article investigates the morphosyntax of verbs of internally caused scalar change and
the main facets of their meaning. Availing ourselves of primary evidence from Italian, French …

Las teorías sobre la conceptualización de los eventos de cambio de estado (cf. Haspelmath
1993) han tenido una enorme presencia en los estudios sobre la alternancia causativo …

This article explores the interplay of the event structure template of verbs with the verb's
inherent meaning (the 'root') and the nature of the subject (eg, animacy and control) in …

In this paper I present a taxonomy of Italian psych verbs based on a lexical resource of 321
verbs in 6 classes and 5 subclasses. Psych verbs are analysed according to the syntactic …