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Terms vs Unaccusative - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between terms and unaccusative

is that terms is while unaccusative is (linguistics) an unaccusative verb.

As an adjective unaccusative is

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

terms

English

Noun

(head)

    • Statistics

    * ----

    unaccusative

    English

    (Unaccusative verb)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (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

    (en noun)
  • (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)