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  1. Faculté des lettres Départment de langues et littératures romanes, Université de Genève, CH-1211, Genève 4, Switzerland

    Adriana Belletti

  2. Scuola Normale Superiore, 56100, Pisa, Italy

    Adriana Belletti

  3. Faculté des lettres Département de linguistique générale, Université de Genève, CH-1211, Genève 4, Switzerland

    Luigi Rizzi

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We wish to thank for helpful comments and suggestions Noam Chomsky, Guglielmo Cinque, Richard Kayne, Mary Laughren, Beth Levin; and, for detailed comments on the first version, Luigi Burzio, Joan Maling, David Perlmutter, David Pesetsky, Nicolas Ruwet. Belletti's work was supported in part by a grant to the Lexicon Project of the MIT Center for Cognitive Science from the System Development Foundation.

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Belletti, A., Rizzi, L. Psych-verbs and θ-theory. Nat Lang Linguist Theory 6, 291–352 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00133902

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