Johnson 2004 - CDLI - UCLA

analogous to the ergative agent of a transitive clause and the bare inalienable noun +
inalienable possessor is analogous to the zero-marked absolutive patient), but that the
thematic roles of the participants are theme and experiencer rather than agent and patient.
The first of these two corollaries is dealt with in the following chapter, where the non-
agentivity of the experiencer and the stative/resultative nature of the BNBV inal class are
dealt with at length; the second corollary is taken up in detail at the end of the dissertation
(see chapter 5 for details).
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