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1. 英語の目的の意味を表す不定詞節の中で、"in order"という表現を選択的に付加することのできるものがある。（1）と（2）がその例である。 （1） a. Scientists have known for decades that hurricanes need ocean water that is 79 degrees or warmer in order to form and grow. ..

Remarks on Causative Verbs and Object Deletion in English

Rappaport Hovav and Levin (1998) contend that result verbs disallow object deletion becauseof their lexical semantic properties. Their point is that the distinction between result verbs andmanner verbs with their different event structure representation constitutes the important factorwhich dictates the possibility of the variation of argument realization, of which object deletionrepresents one instance. Responding to their claim, Goldberg (2001) presents the evidencewhich mainly concerns the object deletion of causative verbs (which correspond to result verbs)in English in order to show that the distinction is not substantial. The purpose of this paper istwo-fold. One is to present several pieces of evidence for Goldberg\u27s contention based on thebehavior of causative verbs with respect to object deletion. It is made evident that causative verbsin fact behave even freer than Goldberg\u27s principle predicts. The other purpose is to examine someaspects of Goldberg\u27s principle and demonstrate that it has wider applicability than originallyintended, which eventually indicates that the principle comprises a part of a general set ofconditions on the object deletion in English. The conclusion is that object deletion is not so muchsensitive to the distinction between causative verbs and non-causative verbs as Rappaport Hovavand Levin claim it to be and therefore, object deletion fails to be a good diagnostic tool for thedifferentiation of the two verb classes. In other words, causativity is not a good parameter for thepossibility of object deletion