... twof-structure lexical forms. Specifically, we predict that either “object” of the11Welcome to Lexical- Functional Grammar 1.1 IntroductionGenerative linguistics or generative grammar , a field ... (1982b),was lexical, and a lexical approach has been argued to be correct by Frank (1996). Under a lexical analysis, the VP in complement position would be annotated = and the causativized lexical ... cannot be changed.But a lexical rule is not a syntactic rule. Lexical rules do not represent on-lineprocessing, but rather regularities relating stored lexical items. When a lexical rule is applied...