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An intriguing phenomenon in syntax is the dynamism which lexical elements seem to exhibit in the sense that, as Hoekstra (1990a:2) phrases it, they “quite generally appear in varying syntactic configurations”. Two well-documented case-studies of the dynamism I have in mind are presented in Hoekstra (1988, 1990a) and Hoekstra (1984) (extended radically in Hoekstra and Mulder 1990). I give examples in (1) through (3) ((1 a) and (3), a Dutch example, borrowed from the works cited). This dynamism phenomenon is also discussed extensively in Goldberg (1995); of the numerous cases discussed there, I quote the ones in (4) (op. cit. p. 9; 141ff; 154).
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In subsequent chapters of Goldberg (1995), it is attempted to give theta roles a place in the system too, cf. p. 24; in that sense, Goldberg is not radical enough to my liking.
In the nominal domain we saw a similar example in section 4 of chapter 5, where a nominal phrase marked for definiteness was obligatorily interpreted as a mass in the complement of a massifier.
I briefly discussed the possibility of extending it to transitives in general, also in the context Chomsky’s (1995, Chapt. 4) light verb and the Burzio Generalization towards the end of section 2.5 of the preceding chapter. For more discussion, see Den Dikken and Sybesma (1998).
I recommend the works mentioned in footnote 11 of chapter 2.
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Sybesma, R. (1999). The Prominence of Structure. In: The Mandarin VP. Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, vol 44. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9163-8_7
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