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A Treebank-based Investigation of IPP-triggering Verbs in Dutch

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haemagglut<strong>in</strong>ate, hemagglut<strong>in</strong>ate<br />

cause the clump<strong>in</strong>g together <br />

(VP (TO to)<br />

(VP (VB cause)<br />

(NP (DT the)<br />

(ADJP (VBG clump<strong>in</strong>g) (RB together) ) )<br />

haemagglut<strong>in</strong>ate:VB(e1, x1, x2) -> cause:VB(e1, x1, e2) clump:VB(e2, x4, x2)<br />

together:RB(e2)<br />

set_ablaze, set_aflame, set_on_fire, set_afire<br />

set fire to; cause to start burn<strong>in</strong>g <br />

(VP (TO to)<br />

(VP (VB cause)<br />

(S (VP (TO to)<br />

(VP (VB start)<br />

(S (VP (VBG burn<strong>in</strong>g) ) )<br />

set_ablaze:VB(e1, x1, x2) -> cause:VB(e1, x1, x2) to:IN(e1, e2) start:VB(e2, x2, e3)<br />

burn:VB(e3, x2, x3)<br />

shame<br />

cause to be ashamed <br />

(VP (VB cause)<br />

(S (VP (TO to)<br />

(VP (VB be)<br />

(ADJP (JJ ashamed) ) )<br />

shame:VB(e1, x1, x2) -> cause:VB(e1, x1, x4) to:IN(e1, e2) be:VB(e2, x4, x3)<br />

ashamed:JJ(x3)<br />

Apart from the first example, HAEMAGGLUTINATE, which is correctly<br />

encoded, the two other cases are totally wrong. In particular, SHAME,<br />

conta<strong>in</strong>s a free variable X2, which is at first substituted by X4 and then by X3.<br />

In the tables here below I analyse the data related to the encod<strong>in</strong>g <strong>of</strong> MAKE<br />

and CAUSE <strong>in</strong> LFs. As shown <strong>in</strong> Table 2., the use <strong>of</strong> MAKE <strong>in</strong> the 3PP<br />

format constitutes approximately 12% (457) <strong>of</strong> the total 3351 occurrences,<br />

where the rest on the contrary encodes MAKE basically as a two-place<br />

predicate. The other partly similar predicate, CONSIDER, is shown <strong>in</strong> Table 3.<br />

and has a different behaviour: it is used as a 3PP 8% (28) <strong>of</strong> the total<br />

occurencies (369), a very small amount if compared to MAKE, but still<br />

notable when compared to the synonym verb REGARD, which appears 120<br />

times, always encoded as two-place predicate and never encoded as 3PP.<br />

F<strong>in</strong>ally, CAUSE appears only 35 times correctly encoded as a two-place<br />

predicate with another eventive argument encod<strong>in</strong>g the SC. The rema<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g<br />

cases are wrong two-place encod<strong>in</strong>g.<br />

Types Adverb. Adject. <strong>Verbs</strong> Nouns Total<br />

VB(e1, x1, x4) 4 244 537 714 1499<br />

80

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