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AbstractThis article discusses novel experiencer‐object verbs (NEOs) and proposes to align their syntax as well as the syntax of nonagentive experiencer‐object verbs to the syntax of verbs undergoing the causative alternation under similar restrictions. We provide support for the view that (i) volitional agents do not occupy the same structural position as nonvolitional causers; (ii) VoiceP creates a phase, that is, a domain of compositional interpretation, and coercion into a psychological reading takes place in the absence of this layer; (iii) clitic doubling can be sensitive to animacy in a structure that lacks Voice and in which the clitic is the reflex of movement; and (iv) the accusative case morphology of experiencers both in eventive experiencer‐object constructions and our NEO constructions is straightforwardly explained as the result of dependent‐case assignment.

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The DiGreC (DIachrony of GREek Case) treebank is a corpus of selected sentences from Greek texts, ranging from Homer to Modern Greek, which have been annotated morphosyntactically and semantically. The corpus comprises excerpts from 655 texts, for a total of 3385 sentences and 56,440 word tokens; automated tagging and lemmatisation has been supplemented with manual review to ensure accuracy. The data exist in xml and csv formats, which can be manipulated and converted automatically to other schemata. A web site has also been created to allow users to interact with the data more easily, and to provide specialised functionality for searching and visualisation. This corpus was created to inform theoretical debates regarding the role of case in grammar, and may be of use to researchers searching for specific attestations of a range of different constructions in Greek.