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- S0373658X0003425-6-1
- DOI
- 10.31857/S0373658X0003425-6
- Publication type
- Article
- Status
- Published
- Authors
- Volume/ Edition
- Volume / Issue 1
- Pages
- 7-44
- Abstract
The paper addresses the phenomenon I call ‘fake causativization’, whereby some occurrences of causative morphology do not contribute a subevent and its participant to the overall event structure. The main hypothesis advanced in this study is that fake causativization is triggered by a semantic relation between subevents in the syntactically represented event structure whenever it is different from the standard causal relation. This idea is implemented through nanosyntactic approach to spell-out and radical predicate decomposition, a theory of event structure that assumes relations between subevents to be syntactically represented independently of subevents themselves.
- Keywords
- argument structure, causativization, event structure, syntax-semantics interface
- Date of publication
- 02.07.2018
- Year of publication
- 2018
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- 8
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- 601
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