HW 13

Jeongrae Lee

1. Licensing condition (Grammatical conditions under which VI can be inserted into syntactic structure)

2. f-morphemes: Fully specified for features. They may fill their nodes in competition. Speakers have no choice about vocabulary insertion. (e.g. tense morpheme, or little v)

l-morphemes: No competition to fill in their nodes. L-morpheme can fill in their node, in any case that given VI is licensed by appearing in a syntactic context compatible with its requirements.

3. CAUSE: external argument (Agent) is at the Spec vP

BE or BECOME: No external argument (Agent)

4. Because of licensing environment specified in VI. Especially, ([+v])

5. The cases of the causative-inchoative altering verbs (like explode, accumulate), like GROW, they get [±CAUSE] licensing information for the verbal environment, but allow transitive nominalization, unlike GROW but like DESTROY, in the nominalization environment. So, the idea that transitive nominalization is based on [+CAUSE] needs to be revised. This problem can be solved by encyclopedia, a real knowledge a speaker knows about the meaning of the root, but not licensing information only based on syntactic environment of the root.