Thematic Roles and Syntactic Structure

this article was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, grant 410-95-0979, and by FCAR of Quebec, grant 94ER0578. I have had the opportunity to discuss various of the issues in this article in a syntax seminar at McGill University and in colloquium talks at the University of Pennsylvania, USC, and the University of California-Irvine. In addition, I have benefited from discussing these issues with Lisa Travis, Nigel Duffield, O.T. Stewart, Miwako Uesako, Hironobu Hosoi, Mika Kizu, and Jim McGilvary, . I thank all these people and groups for their valuable input