Talk:Volition (linguistics)

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Stefanie Fauconnier. (2013). Completives as markers of non-volitionality. Folia Linguistica, 47(1), 35-54. doi:10.1515/flin.2013.003 http://web.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.library.ubc.ca/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=2c8ca16f-3230-4c98-bd11-4aa9c516c55e%40sessionmgr15&vid=2&hid=10

Ditransitive Idioms and Argument Structure Hideki Kishimoto Journal of East Asian Linguistics, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Jun., 2008), pp. 141-179 http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.library.ubc.ca/stable/40345221

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EchoAC (talk) 18:27, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

looking at Sentences in English cannot express both volitionality and non-volitionality for one action. This is indicated by the following semantically ill-formed sentence using both kinds of adverbs: d.

This meaning can (at least in some dialect areas) be carried by the used of the phrase 'accidentally on-purpose'. E.g., #'I kicked her doll accidentally on-purpose' — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.163.206.101 (talk) 13:57, 14 August 2014 (UTC)