Intransitive alternations and the semantics of predicates in Latin

This article discusses two types of intransitive alternations in Latin and the semantic parameters determining their encoding and distribution: animacy, control, the verb’s inherent meaning ‘the root’, and lexical aspect. The analysis brings novel data to the current debate on the role played by the verb’s inherent meaning and its interaction and integration with the event structure template of predicates and the inherent properties of the verbs’s core arguments in determining argument realization, also throwing new light on the status of some so-called ‘impersonal’ verbs/patterns in the language, an issue addressed also in a wider typological perspective.