On Obligatory Obligation: The Composition Of Italian Causatives

On Obligatory Obligation: The Composition Of Italian Causatives (2003)

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by Edited Ana Castro , H. Harley , Valentine Hacquard , Andres Pablo Salanova , R. Folli , Heidi Harley

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TITLE	On Obligatory Obligation: The Composition Of Italian Causatives	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR NAME	Edited Ana Castro	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR NAME	H. Harley	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR NAME	Valentine Hacquard	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR NAME	Andres Pablo Salanova	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR NAME	R. Folli	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR AFFIL	University of Cambridge and University of Arizona	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR NAME	Heidi Harley	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR AFFIL	University of Cambridge and University of Arizona	user correction - Legacy Corrections
ABSTRACT	this paper, we have looked at the formation of FI and FP constructions in Italian and considered previous analyses of this phenomenon. We showed how the crucial semantic fact identified by Kayne --- that FIs create a sense of obligation on the Causee absent in the FPs --- is due to a fundamental selectional difference between the two constructions. Only FIs are formed with a true light verb fare, which itself selects for a vP headed by v DO , in its complement. The v DO , which introduces the Causee agent into the embedded event, ensures that the Causee must be acting under his/her own volition. Since the only way of causing someone to act under their own volition is to oblige them to in one way or another, the FI implies obligation	user correction - Legacy Corrections
YEAR	2003	user correction - Legacy Corrections
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