Merely some of the evidence from this semester follows.
"The sentence We threw the squirrels some peanuts evokes the idea of squirrels willingly accepting their peanuts. The example could not be used to describe the activity of throwing peanuts at dead squirrels."
"Frank sneezed his cat soaking wet."
"(10) There was cat all over the road.
The tractor was
driven by a 16 year old boy.
John is best
friends with Eddie Murphy.
"* Staying behind the counter, the bank robbers shot their way through the crowd."
"Mary accidentally murdered Jane [although she had meant to murder Sue; although she had only meant to knock her unconscious]."
"Thus, while (21) below does not imply that Jane will benefit from imbibing the martini, it does presuppose that she is expected to drink the martini.
(21) Jack poured Jane an arsenic-laced martini.""(24) Bill gave Chris a kick."
"Bob received a slap/kick/kiss/smile from Jo."
"That is, we would need a special sense of bludgeon, 'to move by bludgeoning,' a special sense of maul, 'to move by mauling,' and so forth. "
"Sally drank her way through a case of vodka."
"He joked her way into bed. Then both the subject and the object are in bed....well, they both would be...." followed by comments of being embarrassed.
