迂言的have使役構文に関する構文理論的考察

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In this paper I have attempted to show that a constructional approach provides a coherent story about the have causative construction. The semantics of have-causatives as a complex conceptual structure (i.e., embedding a subevent within a superordinate event) predicts not only the syntax but also various properties of the construction; (1)that the inanimate subject is prohibited in the matrix subject position, (2)that the alternation between causative reading and experiential reading is correlated with the alternative placement of the focus on the sematic predicates and the placement of the primary stress, (3)that "substitute of the argument," the phenomenon similar to Kageyama's (1996) "replacement of the argument" emerges, (4)that the matrix passivization is prohibited but the the passivization in the complement is allowed, and (5)that the unaccusative verb die can appear in the complement clause when the have causative construction is motivated by the schema of the resultative.