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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.

See also

unaccusatory unaccused unaccusing unaccustomed unacerbic unacetylatable