Selectional preferences of semantically primitive verbs in English : the periphrastic causatives and verbs of becoming
Analyses of English verb meaning often rely on quasi-aspectual operators embedded in event structures to explain shared properties across classes. These operators scope over temporally basic meaning elements that make up the idiosyncratic semantic core of complex verbs. While the inventory of operat...
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2013
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2152/22679 |