Causatives across components

Natural Language and Linguistic Theory

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 657-704

  Horvath, Julia ^a   Siloni, Tal ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Causative; Decomposition; Experiencer verb; External argument; Lexicon; Unaccusative

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052245390     PISSN: 0167806X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11049-011-9135-3     Document Type: Article

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