On the structure of psych-verb constructions

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Article

Publication Date

1990

Abstract

One of the recent challenges to the Government-Binding framework has been to explain the reversal properties of psych-verbs like "worry," "terrify," and "concern." Two GB-type explanations for the reversal properties of psych-verbs have been proposed: one claims that the reversal properties arise because psych-verbs are unaccusative verbs (Belletti and Rizzi (1988) and Kim and Larson (1989)) and the other claims that the reversals arise because psych-verbs have reversed argument structures.

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