535 Assignment 11

Harley, l-syntax

Due: Tues, Feb. 24

1.    Harley claims, following Kratzer, that external arguments are added to roots by a separate projection in the syntax. What is the importance of the example "Opus's amusement of Ronald-Ann"?  (2-3 sentences)

2.  The causative morpheme -sase- in Japanese exhibits an effect familiar from our discussions of inflectional morphology, when it's a lexical causative. What is this effect?

3. For Hale and Keyser, unaccusative verbs have no additional verbal projection in l-syntax; only causative verbs do.  What fact about Japanese unaccusative variants of causative verbs does Harley point to to argue that this is incorrect?

4.  (Cryptic argumentation bonus question: no need to attempt it if you don't want to): If a PDS account like that of Miyagawa 1989 tried to explain the unavailability of lexical causatives of unergative verbs like waraw- via Blocking, it would be led into a paradox.  Why?