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The verb tener means ‘to have’. Tener is an irregular verb. There are some common expressions in Spanish that use tener (to have) where in English the verb ‘to be’ would be used.

Two that we will consider here are ergative and unaccusative verbs. The basic one each assign a single argument. Given the binary V -- VP1 -- VP2 hypothesis, an unaccusative verb assigns its argument ...