Borik, OlgaBrandt, Patrick2016-06-242016-06-242001-05Borik, O., & Brandt, P. (2001). Experiencers and goals in German unaccusatives. Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics, 23(Spring), 1-13.2371-2643http://hdl.handle.net/1880/51451So-called 'Psychological Predicates' have prov.en particularly problematic for a mapping from lexical argument structure to positions in syntactic structure if one adopts the view that: (I) this mapping should be uniform. (II) the inventory of 'thematic roles' should be kept to a minimum. Drawing heavily on data from German, it is argued, here, that the experiencer role in truly unaccusative structures may well correspond to a locative (source or goal) role. Therefore, the verbs of this class have a truly different thematic structure from the other experiencer verbs, thus avoiding problems with the uniformity of linking from the beginning.enLinguisticsGerman languageSyntaxjournal article10.11575/PRISM/28963