piñón: verbs of creation

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Broadly speaking, verbs of creation denote the coming into being of the referent of their direct internal argument as a result of the event named by them. Such verbs are therefore often said to take 'effected objects'. Examples in which the entity created is a physical object are shown in (1).

(1) (a) Rebecca built a Victorian style house.
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reference

Piñón, Christopher. Verbs of creation. In Johannes Dölling, Tatjana Heyde-Zybatov, and Martin Schäfer, editors, Event structures in linguistic form and interpretation. Mouton de Gruyter, to appear 2007. URL: <http://pinon.sdf-eu.org/covers/vc.html>.

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piñón: verbs of creation
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