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Chapter 7 analyzed two classes of causative verbs, change-of-location verbs like put and deliver and change-of-state verbs like render and convert, which all behaved in parallel – when their place linked, their theme did not. That is, they were all 2-argument verbs. This was predicted by the Prohibition Against Double Fusion given the geometry of their CSs and it was confirmed by the argumenthood tests on their postverbal NPs. At the end of Chapter 7, Section 2, we encountered a different sort of causative, break, whose theme linked even when its optional place linked. No PADF violation occurred because its CS is more complex, similar to resultative CSs, but without the extent component.
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Randall, J.H. (2010). Complex Causative Verbs. In: Linking. Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, vol 74. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8308-2_10
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