Syntax-driven semantic frame composition in Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammars

c. ∃e∃e′∃e′′∃s [causation(e) ∧CAUSE(e, e′) ∧ EFFECT(e, e′′) ∧ activity(e′) ∧ EFFECTOR(e′, x) ∧ change-of-state(e′′) ∧ RESULT(e′′, s) ∧ broken-state(s) ∧ PATIENT(s, y)] Case study: the English dative alternation (1) a. John sent Mary the book. (double object, DO) b. John sent the book to Mary. (prepositional object, PO) Traditional decompositional analysis: (2) a. [ [x ACT] CAUSE [z HAVE y] ] (caused possession) b. [ [x ACT] CAUSE [y GO TO z] ] (caused motion) Observation (inter alia, Krifka 2004, Rappaport Hovav & Levin 2008): • The interpretations of the DO and the PO constructions are sensitive to the lexical semantics of the verb.