These observations and this line of reasoning has not escaped the attention of theoretical linguists : Hale and Keyser ( 1993 ) propose that argument structure is , in fact , encoded syntactically .
on argument structure and the lexical expression of syntactic relations
Kenneth Hale Samuel Jay Keyser
Often , however , these functional elements responsible for licensing event interpretations are not phonologically realized . These observations and this line of reasoning has not escaped the attention of theoretical linguists : Hale and Keyser ( 1993 ) propose that argument structure is , in fact , encoded syntactically . They describe a cascading verb phrase analysis with multiple phonetically empty verbal projections corresponding to concepts such as inchoativity and agentivity .
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