discourse、認知的な要素が項の実現に与える影響再考

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In recent work a number of linguists have offered explicit and ambitious proposals for how semantic properties of verbs relate to the overt expression of arguments and predicates. These proposals have offered, broad taxonomies that divide the lexicon into large semantically-uniform classes (e.g. Levin 1993). In this paper, I shall argue that these analyses underestimate the role of cognitive and discourse factors that cannot be generalised in those kinds of taxonomical analyses. For example, researchers have proposed that causative verbs obligatorily express the argument that undergoes the change of state in all contexts (Browne 1971; Brisson 1994; van Hout 2000; Ritter & Rosen 1996, 1998; Rappaport Hovav & Levin 1998). This generalisation is too strong to accommodate real facts and the exceptional cases ultimately lead to a deeper understanding, from a cognitive point of view, of the general tendencies that exist. Causative verbs often do actually allow patient arguments to be omitted under certain discourse conditions.
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