초록

This paper presents an analysis that middles are dispositionals containing a covert dynamic possibility modal with a [+Cause] feature. This analysis naturally explains the following middle properties: First, an internal argument of the middle verbs appears in the subject position because it is ascribed a dispositional property and the subject position is assigned the Cause Ɵ-role by the covert possibility modal operator. The responsibility reading is also accounted for by the Cause Ɵ-role assigned to the subject position. Genericity follows from the fact that middles are dispositionals. Modifiers which specify an event-property are needed to provide the nuclear scope for the generic operator which lexically binds the event and agent argument of the verb.

키워드

middles, dispositionality, dynamic modality, possibility modal, in-virtue-of generalization, responsibility reading

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