The -dative pseudo-complement

  In verspoor:94, the -dative prepositional phrase is also explicitly specified as an argument of each verb with which it appears. The core semantic content for each of the -dative verbs for sentences of the form NP gimbles NP to NP can be paraphrased as, ``NP acts on NP , causing NP to go to NP ''. The contribution of the to-PP can thus be identified as the ``causing NP to go to NP '' portion of the paraphrase. In the notation of verspoor:94, this is represented as a GO event related by an effect subordinating relation to the main event expressed by the semantics of gimble, as shown in d81. The meaning of this preposition is such that no adjunctive interpretation would make sense -- it wouldn't make sense for an event to GO somewhere, and thus no adjunct interpretation exists for it.