Abstract
The following analysis has several goals :
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reducing causative constructions (faire faire) to one simple process.
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showing that this process, Union, is responsible for many verbal or predicative amalgams, traditionally associated with types of raising, or complement subject deletion (equi), or predicative, auxiliary, and modal structures.
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showing how personal and impersonal passives are also regular cases of Union.
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explaining in a uniform way the distribution of clitics and reflexives in such constructions.
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Fauconnier, G. (1983). Generalized Union. In: Tasmowski, L., Willems, D. (eds) Problems in Syntax. Studies in Language. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2727-1_9
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