Abstract This chapter presents evidence showing that denominal verbs in English, of both the location/locatum and the unergative variety, are ‘measured-out’ by the incorporated nominal Root. This strongly supports the l-syntactic approach of Hale and Keyser (1993), since it shows parallel semantic effects of identical structures in overt syntax and l-syntax, and suggests that English Roots of denominal verbs have inherent semantic properties – in particular, ‘boundedness’ – which determine the effects they produce when they are Incremental Themes. The analysis presented is not obviously compatible with a functional-projection approach to Aktionsart like those of van Hout (2000), Borer (1996), or Ramchand (2001).
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