The relationship between verb meaning and argument realization: What we learn from the processing of agent-implying intransitive verbs in Japanese
This study investigated whether some Japanese intransitive verbs, called agent-implying intransitive verbs, are processed differently from other ordinary intransitive verbs.These verbs are special in that they denote agentive events, but they are intransitive verbs, which only allow the patient/theme to be the only nominatively marked argument.The