The Affected Agent

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2865013
AutoresAnuradha Saksena (autor correspondente)
Ano1980
Volume56
Fascículo4
Páginas812
Data de publicação1980-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoLanguage (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665
EditoraJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/413490
OpenAlexW2323566398
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas23

It is commonly believed that agents constitute a single primitive category, distinct from other categories such as patient. This paper challenges such an assumption, arriving at three conclusions: (a) A variety of rules classify agents into affected vs. non-affected types. (b) These rules group affected agents with other affected roles such as patient, dative, and experiencer. (c) The affected/non-affected distinction is more basic than role distinctions such as agent and patient. Among the correlates claimed here for the affected/non-affected contrast is ‘causee’ case-marking, an area that has attracted recent controversy in Comrie 1976 and Cole 1976

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