@inproceedings {7215,
	title = { An inside-out approach to French causatives },
	year = {2020},
	pages = {5-25},
	abstract = {<p>In this paper, we provide a novel account of French causatives that crucially derives the core properties of the construction inside-out from the downstairs lexical verb to the causative verb, rather than outside-in, as is commonly assumed by argument composition (Miller \&amp; Sag, 1997; Abeill\&eacute; \&amp; Godard, 1997; Abeill\&eacute; et al., 1998). We shall argue on the basis of clitic trapping (Miller \&amp; Sag, 1997), as well as marking of the downstairs subject (Koenig, 1998) that the downstairs verb assumes a more active role than what is suggested by an argument composition approach and, conversely, we shall show that argument composition leads to problems with coordination and with en-cliticisation. The analysis we are going to propose combines an inversion analysis of the downstairs subject as a downstairs complement, accounting for scrambling and case marking, with an analysis of clitic climbing in terms of inflectional periphrasis (Aguila-Multner \&amp; Crysmann 2020).</p>
},
	doi = {10.21248/hpsg.2020.1},
	author = {Aguila-Multner, Gabrielle and Crysmann, Berthold}
}
