unaccusative

== English == === Etymology === From un- +‎ accusative, from the fact that in a nominative-accusative language, the accusative case, which marks the direct object of a transitive verb, typically marks the non-volitional role. In unaccusative verbs, the non-volitional arguments do not take the accusative case. === Pronunciation === (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˌʌnəˈkjuːzətɪv/ === Adjective === unaccusative (not comparable) (linguistics, of a verb) Intransitive and having an experiencer as its subject, that is, the (syntactic) subject is not a (semantic) agent. ==== Antonyms ==== unergative transitive ==== Hyponyms ==== intransitive ==== Related terms ==== accusative ==== Translations ==== === Noun === unaccusative (plural unaccusatives) (linguistics) An unaccusative verb. ==== Antonyms ==== unergative === References === “unaccusative verb” in the Lexicon of Linguistics (Utrecht institute of Linguistics)