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How Do Verbs Get Their Names? Denominal verbs, Manner Incorporation, and the Ontology of Verb Roots in English

Evidence is presented showing that denominal verbs in English, of both the location/locatum variety and the unergative variety, are ‘measured-out’ by the incorporated nominal Root. This strongly supports Hale and Keyser’s (1993 et seq.) l-syntactic approach, since it shows parallel semantic effects of identical structures in overt syntax and l-syntax, and suggests that English Roots of denominal verbs have inherent semantic properties, in particular, ‘boundedness’, which determine the effects they produce when they are Incremental Themes. * I wish to thank the workshop organizers, Tova Rapoport and Nomi Erteschik-Shir, as well as the workshop participants and audiences at the University of Maryland and the University of Arizona, for very useful input. All remaining shortcomings are of course my own responsibility.