Abstract:In this paper, I argue a special kind of causative alternation that arises from a speaker's immediate need to express the ‘forced control’ semantics of an imposed causer. This type of causativization, termed improvised causativization, is not limited by the argument structure of an intransitive base verb, whether it is unergative or unaccusative. Based on this observation, I propose that causativization be syntactically represented through a cause phrase that is added after a vP is completed; specifically, at … Show more
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