ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that, in Romance causatives, a biclausal structure and a monoclausal structure are both present at a single level of syntactic representation. These parallel structures, together with Case theory, account for the major properties of causatives in Romance. A variety of causative structures are examined, including ones in which the embedded clause is transitive, intransitive, or intransitive with a PP complement, as well as the faire-par construction. An interesting difference between French and Spanish is given a natural explanation in this account. The behavior of clitics in French and Spanish causatives is discussed extensively, including an analysis of clitics in unaccusative clauses. Here, too, the analysis accounts naturally for the differences between French and Spanish.
