Eva Klingvall On non-copula Tough Constructions in Swedish (PDF ...

140för (‘fall for’) in (20), and verbs with Recipient subjects, such as ta emot(‘receive’) in (21), are thus infelicitous:(19) a. Per är lätt PRO Exp att störa sig på.Per is easy to annoy REFL on‘Per is easy to get annoyed at.’b. ?? Per går lätt PRO Exp att störa sig på.Per goes easily to annoy REFL on(20) a. Denthatb. ?? Denthat(21) a. Denthatb. ?? Denthat‘Per is easy to get annoyed at.’frestelsentemptation-DEFärislätt PRO Exp att falla för.easy to fall for‘That temptation is easy to give in to.’frestelsentemptation-DEFgår lätt PRO Exp att falla för.goes easily to fall for‘That temptation is easy to give in to.’gåvangift-DEFäris‘That gift is easy to receive.’gåvangift-DEFlätt PRO Rec att ta emot.easy to receivegår lätt PRO Rec att ta emot.goes easily to receive‘That gift is easy to receive.’The sentences in (19b), (20b) and (21b) are well-formed only to the extentthat the verbs in the infinitival clauses can get an agentive interpretation, i.e.with PRO interpreted as an Agent. No such coercion is necessary in the TC.2.3 Small clausesIntuitively, both TCs and go-TCs express properties that consist of the adjectiveor adverb in combination with the infinitival clause. This is syntacticallytransparent in the TC but not in the go-TC. That is, in the TC the adjectivecan be shown to take the infinitival clause as its syntactic complement and theunderlying object as its subject. The subject-predicate relation is here analyzedas mediated via the adjectival functional head, a, an instantiation of the