Ausensi Jiménez, Josep; Yu, Jianrong; Smith, Ryan Walter(Ubiquity Press, 2021)
An influential proposal about the status of a verb’s agent argument maintains they
are severed from the verb’s argument structure and introduced as external arguments
via functional heads in the syntax (Kratzer 1996). ...
Ausensi Jiménez, Josep; Yu, Jianrong; Walter Smith, Ryan(Linguistic Society of America, 2020)
Since Marantz (1984) and Kratzer (1996), it has been widely accepted in the literature on argument structure that agents are introduced as external arguments via a functional head VOICE through secondary predication, using ...
