ABSTRACT
The proposal is elaborated that the ultimate generator of the movement processes occurring in causatives is the fundamental labeling requirement, which is essential for the interpretation of syntactic structures at the interfaces. In Italian/Romance, the requirement is satisfied through a smuggling-type movement of a chunk of the verb phrase, probed by a criterial causative voice head. The remaining constituent is labeled DP. The movement attracting property of the causative head is parametrized so that in English-type languages the attracted constituent is the DP-external argument of the lexical verb. This process yields labeling of the remaining constituent as vP. Minimal parametric differences in the attracting property of the causative voice yield the different types of causatives, whose structural syntactic architecture and interpretation are fundamentally homogeneous.
