This analysis explores contact verb constructions in English, suggesting new insights on grammatical structures.
It is widely observed, as in Fillmore(1970), Quirk et.al.(1985),Levin(1993), and others, that verbs of contact in English appear in the constructions like those in (1).We will call them Body-Part Possessor Ascension Alternation(henceforth,BPA), following Levin(1993).
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Tatsuhiro Murakami (1999) studied this question.
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