On the licensing of causatives of directed motion: Waltzing Matilda all over*
2006; Wiley; Volume: 60; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1111/j.1467-9582.2006.00135.x
ISSN1467-9582
AutoresRaffaella Folli, Heidi Harley,
Tópico(s)Linguistic Variation and Morphology
ResumoAbstract. This paper focuses on one famous example of an alternation that has been supposed to depend on telicity, the causative manner‐of‐motion alternation in English John ran the dog *(to the park) . One standard approach has taken telicity to be central to the possibility of causative formation. We argue here that although telicity can be a property of these constructions, it is not necessary for the formation of a motion causative in English. Rather, what licenses the alternation is the availability of a specific syntactic structure, containing a small clause, interacting with non‐telicity‐related semantic restrictions imposed by verb meanings.
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