Causation, obligation, and argument structure: On the nature of little v

Linguistic Inquiry

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 197-238

  Folli, Raffaella ^a   Harley, Heidi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent; Case; Causative; Italian; Passive; Unaccusative; Unergative

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248363248     PISSN: 00243892     EISSN: 00243892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/ling.2007.38.2.197     Document Type: Article

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