Notes on fake causativization

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.

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argument structure, causativization, event structure, syntax-semantics interface

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GOST	Tatevosov S. Notes on fake causativization // Voprosy Jazykoznanija – 2018. – Issue 1 C. 7-44 [Electronic resource]. URL: http://ras.jes.su/vopjaz/s0373658x0003425-6-1-en (circulation date: 20.04.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S0373658X0003425-6
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