How many theta roles in a reflexive verb

A. Dimitriadis, M. Everaert
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While purely syntactic approaches to reflexivization have characterized reflexive verbs in terms of detransitivization, we show that there is a discrepancy between syntactic and semantic arity. Reflexive verbs are syntactically intransitive, but semantically they are two-place predicates: both semantic roles of the base verb are syntactically encoded and accessible. We show that detransitivizing reflexivization must involve the assignment of both roles to the same individual, along the lines of the argument-structure operation of bundling (Reinhart & Siloni 2005), which combines two semantic roles into a single complex role. This allows the bundled roles to be assigned to a single syntactic argument, without special syntactic measures and without violating the theta criterion. We will give empirical support for this analysis by recalling evidence that reflexive verbs are intransitive, and by demonstrating that both theta roles are present in reflexive predicates and are syntactically accessible.
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一个反身动词有多少个角色
虽然纯句法的反身化方法在反及物化方面表征了反身动词,但我们表明句法和语义之间存在差异。反身动词在句法上是不及物动词,但在语义上它们是二元谓词:基本动词的两个语义角色在句法上都是编码的,并且可以访问。我们表明,反及物化反身化必须涉及到将两个角色分配给同一个人,沿着捆绑的参数结构操作的路线(Reinhart & Siloni 2005),将两个语义角色组合成一个复杂的角色。这允许将绑定的角色分配给单个语法参数,而不需要特殊的语法度量,也不会违反theta标准。我们将通过回顾反身动词是不及物动词的证据,并通过证明这两个角色都存在于反身谓词中,并且在句法上是可访问的,来为这一分析提供实证支持。
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