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P-conflation in the English spray/load alternation
Date created: 2021-10-01 02:11 PM | Last Updated: 2021-10-31 02:57 PM
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Spray/load verbs can take a theme object (e.g., John sprayed paint onto the wall) or a goal object (e.g., John sprayed the wall with paint). I show that the syntactic status of these objects differs: theme objects can be subjects of unaccusative uses of spray/load verbs and referents of their entity nominalizations, but not goal objects (cf. Paint sprayed onto the wall, *The wall sprayed with pain…
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