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Contents

Abstract

0. Introduction

1. Patient arguments and omissibility

2. Goldberg’s Deprofiled Object Construction

3. A lexical-paradigmatic view on Patient Omission

4. A corpus-based analysis of lexical and constructional interaction

4.1 Starve and suffocate

4.2 Break

4.2.1 Degree of Medium overlap

4.2.2. Subgroups of formally intransitive constructions

4.2.2.1 Breaking clouds

4.2.2.2 Intransitive motion

4.2.2.3 Objectless clauses

5. Conclusions

References