Causation, Obligation, and Argument Structure: On the Nature of Little v
Causation, Obligation, and Argument Structure: On the Nature of Little v
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因果关系、义务和论证结构：论小v的本质
作者：
R. Folli;H. Harley
Kayne（1975）指出，带有faire的浪漫使役句分为两类：faire infinitif（FI）和faire par（FP）。我们认为，从意大利的数据，这两个类的属性取决于票价的补语的性质：FI嵌入一个VP，FP一个名词化VP。这些补语的句法和语义特征直接解释了FI和FP之间众所周知的差异，包括FI中先前未处理的义务要求，FP中没有。我们的分析还解释了对FP形成的另一个微妙的限制：存在对票价主体的生命性要求，在FI中没有。最后，我们认为，只有FP可以进行被动化，这占了以前未观察到的不作格和不作格不及物动词的使役被动化的不对称性。
As shown by Kayne (1975), Romance causatives with faire fall into two classes, faire infinitif (FI) and faire par (FP). We argue from Italian data that the properties of the two classes depend on the nature of the complement of fare:FI embeds a vP, FP a nominalized VP. The syntactic and semantic characteristics of these complements account straightforwardly for well-known differences between FI and FP, including the previously untreated obligation requirement in FI, absent in FP. Our analysis also accounts for another subtle restriction on the formation of FP: the existence of an animacy requirement on the subject of fare, absent in FI. Finally, we argue that only FP can undergo passivization; this accounts for a previously unobserved asymmetry in passivizability of causatives of unergative and unaccusative intransitive verbs.