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[Valia Kordoni]

Ann, thanks for adding the reference to Condoravdi 1990.

re Dowty: I guess you have his 1991 Language paper in mind 
(http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~syntax-circle/syntax-group/dowty91.pdf). 
He's aiming at treating there symmetric predicates, too, but one has to be 
a bit critical, in my opinion, with the presented analysis, since at the 
end of the day an entity bears a (Proto-)Agent role in his numerical 
comparison model, if the other entity of a (two-place) relation bears a 
(Proto-)Patient role. And this is a bit difficult to see/show in a 
symmetric relation, as he also acknowledges.

Valia

On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, Ann Copestake wrote:

>
> I guess in addition to Valia's references, I should have acknowledged:
>
> Condoravdi C.
>        March 1990, "Symmetric Predicates, Verbal Classes
>        & Diathesis Alternations"
>        ESPRIT BRA-3030 ACQUILEX WP NO.003
>
> (I don't think I actually have a copy, though ...)
>
> I believe there's also discussion about the symmetry or otherwise by Dowty in
> the context of the more general discussion of thematic roles.
>
>
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