Abstract This paper discusses whether capacity to license an internal argument and eventivity are default properties of so-called change-of-state verbs. I draw attention to the claim that, in certain languages, the causative-inchoative alternation extends to a third, external-argument-only variant with stative behavior. Productivity and systematicity raise a host of problems for current generalizations on the Causative Alternation and change-of-state verbs for various reasons, starting from the long-held claim that unique arguments of change-of-state verbs are by default internal. Insofar as the causative component is independently realized in a noneventive, nonepisodic frame, this variant challenges (a) a widely agreed rule of event composition, whereby cause, if present, causally implicates process; (b) the claim that cause(r) interpretation of the external argument is a byproduct of transitivization. The present discussion: (a) brings out a crosslanguage contrast bearing on default (cause/undergoer) interpretation of unique arguments in equipollent alternations; (b) provides new empirical data supporting the stativity of the (causative) outer v head; (c) substantiates important predictions in the literature (e.g. that verbs of causation should have stative readings; that external-argument-only variants of Object-Experiencer verbs should be found); (d) captures further verb classes allowing the alternation; and (e) shows crucial contrasts with other transitive-(in/a)transitive alternations involving null/arb objects. Aspect and determination of different (a)atransitivity alternations are central throughout.

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因果性中的统称性？新问题和新变种

摘要本文讨论了许可内部自变量和事件性的能力是否是所谓的状态改变动词的默认属性。我提请注意这样一种说法，即在某些语言中，因果－代词交替扩展到具有状态行为的第三个仅外部参数的变体。出于各种原因，生产力和系统性引起了当前引起性交替和状态改变动词的许多问题，这是由长期以来一直主张的状态改变动词的唯一论点默认为内部的开始的。就致因成分是在非偶然，非事件框架中独立实现的情况而言，此变体将挑战（a）广泛认可的事件构成规则，如果存在，则因果关系过程。（b）声称对外部论点的原因解释是过渡化的副产品。当前的讨论：（a）提出了一种跨语言的对比，该对比涉及等当性交替中唯一论点的默认（原因/经历）解释；（b）提供新的经验数据，以支持（致使）外部v头的统计性；（c）证实文献中的重要预测（例如，因果动词应具有陈述性的理解；应找到仅由外部参数提供的Object-Experiencer动词变体）；（d）捕捉更多允许交替的动词类别；（e）与涉及空对象或弧形对象的其他及物（in / a）及物交替显示出重要的对比。不同的（a）及物性交替的方面和确定始终是核心。