Anticausatives have no Cause(r): a rejoinder to Beavers and Koontz-Garboden (in this issue)

• Julia Horvath ^[1] ; Tal Siloni ^[1]
  1. [1] Tel Aviv University

     Tel Aviv University

     Israel

     
• Localización: Lingua: International review of general linguistics, ISSN 0024-3841, Nº 131, 2013, págs. 217-230
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This paper reaffirms the conclusion of Horvath and Siloni (2011a) that unaccusatives – with or without the so-called reflexive morphology – involve no Cause ingredient whatsoever. Arguments based on the distribution of the modifier by itself, negation, and the Greek cause preposition apo show that. Beavers and Koontz-Garboden's (in this issue) counterarguments to Horvath and Siloni are either based on partial data or confounded by independent factors.