Chapter 5 - Verb Phrases(93) vP
DP v'
Ursula v vP
e DP v'
the waiter v VP
e V'
V
upset
The event structure of these verbs seems to support this analysis as it does seem
rather complex:
(94) e = e 1 Æ e 2 Æ e 3 : e 1 = ‘Fred did something’
e 2 = ‘I experience something’
e 3 = ‘I am frightened’
To get the right word order we will have to assume that the verb moves to the highest
light verb and in fact, the verb will have to move to them both, one after the other, if
abstract light verbs are bound morphemes:
(95) a vP
DP v'
Ursula v vP
e DP v'
the waiter v VP
upset 1 v V'
e V
t 1