A VP-shell Analysis of Persian Causative Verbs

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Since Larson (1988) argued that VP is of two shells (layers) , higher with a light verb and the lower is with a lexical verb as its head, linguists have tried to investigate structures by which the claim can be evaluated. Persian causative constructions ( PCS ) with its various syntactic forms can be helpful in this respect.
       This study argues that PCS is clearly formed of a light verb maximal projection ( vP) and a verb phrase projection ( VP).It is argued that the light verbs which stand as the head of  vP is Ǿ , KARDAN, and the affix “ – AN”.It is also argued that in some cases PCS shows some lexical changes in verbal constructions. So it seems that considering  lexical properties in structural analyses can provide a better description . The data of the study shows that at least one piece of evidence support the interface of function and form as functionalist believe.

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