In this talk I first distinguish between two different types of "Measuring-Out"
VP structures: verbs of creation and destruction on the one hand, and verbs
of change-of-state on the other. I argue that in Hale and Keyser's "lexical
syntax" framework, these two types of measuring-out correspond to two different
types of conflation structures. I show that these measuring-out effects are
detectable in denominal verbs in English, and conclude that the Hale and Keyser-style
approach allows a unified account of such effects in both denominal verbs and
non-conflated VP structures, assuming that boundedness is an inherent property
of Roots. Time permitting, I will discuss the difference in structure between
instrumental denominal verbs and location/locatum denominal verbs in English,
and contrast English lexical-syntactic
processes with those of the Romance languages.
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