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- As argued in FVV, section 3.4, this linking scheme provides an explanation for
the strong cross-linguistic tendency for causees in this construction to be coded in
the dative case or as an oblique core argument, rather than as undergoer. - "Position" should not be taken literally to imply that this applies only to fixed
word order languages like English; rather, it means simply that a syntactic argu
ment slot, be it marked by position, case or cross-referencing, is missing from the
linked core. - As Cutrer (1987, this volume) shows, arbitrary control is not possible here,
because it is a feature of subordinate nexus only. - Unfortunately, in section 6.5 of FVV, the discussion of argument sharing is mis-
leadingly phrased in terms of coreference constraints. - Cf. section 3.3.2.
- The qualifications "simple" and "direct" are meant to indicate that this does not
apply to echo questions, rhetorical questions, indirect questions, and other
marked question types which have different pragmatic (felicity) conditions on
them. - Note that extraction is impossible out of OV clauses in German, and it was argued
in sect. 6.6 that OV order correlates with a clause being outside of the PFD of a
sentence; these extraction restrictions thus follow from the account proposed
here.
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