Two Properties of the Intransitive Resultative Construction
This paper argues that the intransitive resultative construction requires head-movement of the secondary predicate to the main predicate in order to assign the theta-role to the postverbal NP in LF. Then, this construction is taken as an instance in which theta role assignment is derivational. This...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Kansas, Department of Linguistics
1997-01-01
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| Series: | Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/325 |