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In this paper, I discuss "quasi-argument" thematic roles (Instrument, Benefactive and certain Locations), and argue on the basis of their reconstruction properties and their dependence on event-related features that we should analyze them as generated in the event-related functional projections for VP, rather than in VP itself. This supports an approach to thematic roles as defined relative to syntactic relations, since I argue that the roles in question are not definable in relation to lexically specified verbal predicates.

Grammar, Comparative and general --- Syntax. --- Grammar --- Language and languages --- Syntax --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Linguistics. --- Linguistic science --- Science of language --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax. --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax