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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 28.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Lang Linguist Theory. 2011 Jul 15;30(1):1–31. doi: 10.1007/s11049-011-9145-1
a. BUTTER MELT+distributive  [unaccusative lexical verb]
 ‘Each of the butters melted.’
b.#WOMAN LAUGH+distributive  [unergative lexical verb]
 ‘Each woman laughed.’
c. BOOK ‘object classifier]’ +MOVE+distributive  [object classifier predicate]
 ‘Each book fell on its side.’
d. BOOK ‘handling classifier z ‘+MOVE+distributive  [handling classifier predicate]
 ‘[Someone] put each the book on its side.’