LINGUIST 601
November 10, 2006
Due on November 17, 2006

Assignment 9 

1. Questions (a-c) are based on Chapter 2 of Levin and Rappaport Hovav (1995).
 
a. What is the Direct Object Restriction (DOR)? Why are unaccusatives a
potential counterexample to this restriction? How does the Unaccusative Hypothesis 
help? 

b. Present a structure for resultative constructions. You can present an
updated version of the structure(s) explored in the reading or something 
different. Whichever structure you present, make sure that your structure is 
able to address the concerns discussed in Section 2.2.1. 

c. How do Levin and Rappaport-Hovav handle the DOR? 

d. Compare the structure that you have proposed in (b) with the structure
proposed in Embick (2004). Discuss the empirical and theoretical motivations 
for and against the two structures. You are welcome to bring in additional
data not considered by Levin and Rappaport-Hovav and Embick as part of your 
argument.