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Meaning of unaccusative | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1
ˌʌnəˈkjuːzətɪv

Definitions

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

not-comparable

Equivalents

Español inacusativo

Examples

“The light-verb analysis sketched here also offers us a way of accounting for the fact that in Early Modern English, the perfect auxiliary used with unaccusative verbs was be (as we saw⟳ in §7.6), whereas that used with transitive and unergative verbs was have⟳.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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See also

unaccusatory unaccused unaccusing unaccustomed unacerbic unacetylatable

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