Beyond Emotions in Language

Polish episodic impersonals featuring a (transitive) agentive verb in the imperfective aspect, an overt dative argument understood to be (coreferential with) the Agent of the activity event denoted by VP, an adverb like łatwo ‘easily’ or a PP like z przyjemnością ‘with pleasure’ and the (formally) reflexive się ‘SE’, are argued here to be impersonal middles expressing experiential evaluation of specific VP-events. The property of the VP-event expressed with the evaluative adverbial is parametriz