Year: 2000
Type: article
Abstract: I will argue that a predicate containing an Experiencer and a T/SM argument must contain an event head.A causative added to such a predicate will be category-external, allowing only default causative morphology to be used (in English and Japanese).Along with the ill-formed (a) examples in (4) and ( 5), then, we have the well-formed (b) examples.(4) a.*The article in The Times angered Mary at the government.b.The article in The Times made Mary angry at the government.(5) a. * The distant rumbling frightened Bill of another tornado.b.The distant rumbling made Bill fear another tornado.
Source: PubMed
DOI: 10.11575/prism/10075
Author: McGinnis, Martha
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: University of Pennsylvania
OpenAlex ID: W18873488