Advances in Role and Reference Grammar

126 ROBERT D. VAN VALIN, JR. (114) a. try' (John, [[do' (John)] CAUSE [BECOME clean' (clock)]]) b. [say' (Mary, John)] CAUSE [BE ...

A SYNOPSIS OF ROLE AND REFERENCE GRAMMAR 127 In terms of the RRG linking theory, the theory of control determines which core arg ...

128 ROBERT D. VAN VALIN, JR. (118) Linking from Syntactic Structure to Logical Structure (Revised) Ascertain the voice of a tra ...

A SYNOPSIS OF ROLE AND REFERENCE GRAMMAR 129 argument in the linked core, there is no syntactic argument to associate with the a ...

130 ROBERT D. VAN VALIN, JR. ...

A SYNOPSIS OF ROLE AND REFERENCE GRAMMAR 131 Figures 43 and 44 in terms of linking is the effect of (117): persuade is a causati ...

132 ROBERT D. VAN VALIN, JR. this generalization, but, crucially, "raising" verbs like believe violate it. That is, they have on ...

A SYNOPSIS OF ROLE AND REFERENCE GRAMMAR 133 guistically, their occurrence in a language must be exceptional in some way, and th ...

134 ROBERT D. VAN VALIN, JR. to the argument type posited in step 1, then ignore that assignment and link it to the argument pos ...

A SYNOPSIS OF ROLE AND REFERENCE GRAMMAR 135 which cannot be linked to a single NP argument in the syntax. Hence, step 4b comes ...

136 ROBERT D. VAN VALIN, JR. verbs in both cores are atransitive, as in (119b), the dummy it appears in the pivot slot in the ma ...

A SYNOPSIS OF ROLE AND REFERENCE GRAMMAR 137 non-argument dummy, unlike e.g. we, the violation is avoided, since the CC specific ...

(^138) ROBERT D. VAN VALIN, JR. a felicitous answer to a yes-no question, and the second is the distribution of etq "some (non-s ...

A SYNOPSIS OF ROLE AND REFERENCE GRAMMAR 139 (126) a. * Wichása etq wótapi echúhq, w(yq ki mni man some 3pL.eat while woman the ...

140 ROBERT D. VAN VALIN, JR. (128) a. Wichása ki wóte echúhq, tha-wícu ki mní man the 3sG.eat while his-wife the water ikicu he? ...

A SYNOPSIS OF ROLE AND REFERENCE GRAMMAR 141 The first sentence, (129a), can be interpreted as either a WH-question, with the me ...

142 ROBERT D. VAN VALIN, JR. Only in (129a) is the subordinate clause a direct daughter of the clause node modified by the IF op ...

A SYNOPSIS OF ROLE AND REFERENCE GRAMMAR 143 mation unit, in this case a predicative PP. Hence in both constructions the subordi ...

144 ROBERT D. VAN VALIN, JR. therefore not in the PFD of the sentence. Consequently, question forma­ tion is not possible. When ...

A SYNOPSIS OF ROLE AND REFERENCE GRAMMAR 145 complement out of the AFD, resulting in a violation of the constraint in (130). Evi ...