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Causative VP-omission in English
Date created: 2021-09-15 09:47 AM | Last Updated: 2021-10-29 10:29 AM
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In English, some causation verbs take a [DP + uninflected VP] complement. Within this class, make and let allow the VP to be omitted; have does not: First I made/let/had John eat dinner, then I made/let/*had Mary. Our empirical contribution is twofold. First, ‘VP-omission’ involves Null Complement Anaphora. Second, the thematic roles of the causer and causee are more restricted with VPO than when …
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