Towards a phonological characterisation of unacusatives in English

Abstract

In the last decades, the syntax-phonology interface has attracted the attention of both generativists (Miller et al 1997, Pullum & Zwicky 1988, Selkirk 1995, 2001) and systemicists (Halliday & Matthiessen 2004, Halliday & Greaves 2008). Scholars within both frameworks have posited the existence of a correlation from syntax to phonology so that every structural syntactic property must have a reflection on a structural phonological property.