Other Verb Classes, Other Issues, and Conclusions

Abstract

Our conclusions in Chapters 5 and 6 about Clausal Fusion and the Prohibition Against Double Fusion led us to reanalyze the Conceptual Structures, Argument Structures, and linking patterns of a number of verb classes. But not all of the verb classes that we have discussed require a reanalysis; as we will show in Sections 1 and 2, below, many of our original linking analyses can stand. In Section 3, we tie up a loose end from Chapter 1, our proposal to streamline CS by reducing the number of CS primitives: a) subsuming go under a form of be, namely become (our term for Jackendoff’s inch oative be), and b) replacing path with place. After reviewing our original arguments, we present additional evidence for these modifications. In Section 4, our final section, we step back to review the progress we have made.