Complex Predicates -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations and symbols -- Chapter 1. Preliminaries -- 1.1 Research goals -- 1.2 Theoretical approaches -- 1.3 Argument structure of causative and applicative constructions -- 1.3.1 Argument structure of causatives -- 1.3.2 Argument structure of applicatives -- 1.4 Variation of causatives and applicatives -- 1.5 Theoretical framework -- 1.5.1 Distributed Morphology (DM) -- 1.5.2 Chomsky's (1999, 2001) notion of phases -- 1.5.3 Contextual allomorphy as evidence for phasehood (Embick 2010) -- 1.5.4 Kratzer (1996) on the VoiceP and external arguments -- 1.5.5 Alexiadou, Anagnostopoulou & Schaefer (2006) on separation of CAUSE from Voice -- 1.5.6 Cuervo (2003) on different flavors of little vs -- 1.6 Status of templates and Kartvelian morphosyntax -- 1.6.1 The structure of the verbal template -- 1.6.2 Assumptions about language-specific templatic constraints -- 1.7 Case and agreement -- 1.8 Outline -- Chapter 2. The morphosyntax of causative alternations -- 2.1 Outline of the analysis -- 2.2 Assumptions -- 2.3 Inchoative-causative alternation in Georgian -- 2.3.1 Causatives of inchoative verbs -- 2.4 Unergative verbs of various types and their causatives -- 2.4.1 Hale & Keyser (1993, 2002) on the structure of unergatives -- 2.4.2 Adjective-Incorporated (AI) vPs and their causatives -- 2.4.3 Syntactic and iterated causatives of unergative verbs -- 2.5 Transitive/causative alternation -- 2.5.1 X makes Y do V alternation -- 2.5.2 Iterated causatives -- 2.6 Adversity causatives in Georgian -- 2.7 'Pretend'-type predicates and their causatives -- 2.7.1 Derivation of 'pretend'-type complex verbs -- 2.7.2 Causative alternation of 'pretend'-type verbs -- 2.8 Psych verbs and causative alternation.

2.8.1 The empirical base of state, dynamic passive, and activity psych verbs -- 2.8.2 Analysis of the morphosyntax of the three classes of psych verbs and their causatives -- 2.9 Causative predicates in related languages (Mengrelian and Svan) -- 2.9.1 The causative alternation in Svan -- 2.9.2 Causative alternation in Mengrelian -- 2.10 Conclusions -- Chapter 3. Applicatives as complex predicates -- 3.1 Theoretical goals -- 3.1.1 Outline of the chapter -- 3.1.2 McGinnis on applicative structures as phases -- 3.1.3 Transitivity restrictions on high and low applicatives (Pylkkänen 2002) -- 3.1.4 Cuervo (2003) on low and high applicatives in Spanish -- 3.1.5 Jeong (2007) on the structure of low applicatives -- 3.2 Low applicatives in Georgian -- 3.2.1 Low recipient applicatives -- 3.2.2 Low source applicatives -- 3.2.3 Low state applicatives: Possessor Datives (AT) -- 3.3 Low applicatives of unaccusative and inchoative verbs -- 3.3.1 Empirical data and syntactic analysis -- 3.3.2 Analysis of morphological marking -- 3.4 Low applicatives of Noun/Adjective-incorporated predicates -- 3.5 Reflexive applicatives -- 3.5.1 Analysis of the morphosyntax of reflexive applicatives -- 3.6 Possessor datives as low applicatives -- 3.6.1 Low applicatives of statives -- 3.6.2 Other activity verbs in low applicative constructions -- 3.7 Four-place predicates as hybrid type applicatives -- 3.7.1 Analysis of the morphosyntax of four-place applicatives -- 3.8 High applicatives in Georgian -- 3.8.1 High applicatives with stative unaccusative predicates -- 3.8.2 High applicatives of other unaccusative predicates -- 3.8.3 High applicatives with dynamic activity verbs -- 3.9 Applicatives in related languages (Mengrelian and Svan) -- 3.9.1 Applicatives in Mengrelian -- 3.9.2 Applicatives in Svan -- 3.10 Conclusions -- Chapter 4. Conclusions -- References -- Appendix A -- Index.

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