In the sentence "He sneezed his tooth right across town," the verb sneeze is traditionally intransitive. According to Adele Goldberg’s framework, how does this sentence receive its causative meaning of motion?

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In the sentence  "He sneezed his tooth right across town,"  the verb  sneeze  is traditionally intransitive. According to Adele Goldberg’s framework, how does this sentence receive its causative meaning of motion?

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The independent Caused-Motion construction provides the syntax and interpretation of movement.

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The sentence is syntactically ungrammatical but pragmatically understood via context.

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An underlying hidden transformation derives it from a modular generative syntax.

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The verb  sneeze  undergoes a lexical rule that permanently changes its core definition.

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