TY - JOUR AU - Alexiadou, Artemis AU - Schäfer, Florian PY - 2019/05/06 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - An Unaccusativity Diagnostic at the Syntax-Semantics Interface: 'there'-Insertion, Indefinites and Restitutive 'again' JF - Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung JA - SuB VL - 15 IS - 0 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/article/view/366 SP - 101-116 AB - <p>This paper argues that the unaccusativity mismatch observed in the<br />literature concerning the availability of <em>there</em>-insertion points to a syntactic<br />difference between two classes of unaccusatives. The paper shows that the<br />theme argument of change-of-location unaccusatives occupies Spec,ResultP,<br />while that of change-of-state unaccusatives occupies Spec,vP. Insertion of<br /><em>there</em> is blocked in the latter case, as the theme and the expletive compete for<br />the same position.</p> ER -