Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution

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version ofCAUSE, as in (21b), withfoodas an explicitPatient.). The very same conceptual configurationcan be realized
lexically in other ways, by“incorporating”larger parts of the tree in (26). Here are two possibilities, representing two
classes of transitive denominal verbs.


Similar incorporationstructures are involved insome of thecases ofpolysemy discussed in sections 11.2 and 11.3. For
instance, if the meaning of the adjectiveopenIis (28a), then the intransitive verbopen 2 is (28b) and the transitiveopenis
(28c). (28c) is identical to (27a) aside fro mthe argu ments of BE.


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