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Sub-class of verbs<br />

• Class II verbs form a sub-class of Levin’s<br />

(1993) “Verbs of creation <strong>and</strong><br />

transformation”<br />

• They differ with respect to the nature of<br />

the effected object<br />

• Since we can’t explain this distribution in<br />

terms of more abstract constructions, we<br />

need to posit an independent idiomatic<br />

construction<br />

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