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Our research will be based on the corpus of 95 psychological ObjExp verbs which we have collected so far. It aims to thoroughly investigate the grammatical and semantic properties of ObjExp verbs to see if the ObjExp psychological verbs resemble prototypical transitive verbs or whether they form a special class with some particular behavior which tells them apart from the other prototypical transitive verbs. As has been noted already for other languages, a transitive variant and a reflexive variant of the same psychological verb could be considered as a kind of psych-causative alternation (Alexiadou & Iordӑchioaia 2014). In the Croatian language, as well as in other Slavic languages, the anticausative member of causative alternation is marked with the reflexive markerse(‘self’), e. g.Ivo je otvorio prozor. ‘John opened the window’, Prozorse otvorio.‘The window opened.’, the same morphology which is visible with the pairs of psych verbs. Hence, our research will focus on a few points: 1. establishing whether all ObjExp verbs have a reflexive counterpart or not, 2. how many ObjExp verbs can be passivized, 3. whether passivization is related to perfective aspect and prefixation, 4. whether the morphological form of the non-experiencer argument with a reflexive variant is predictable of the behavior of passivization of the transitive variant, etc. |
