The instrumental role: argument or adjunct?
Barbara Brunson · 1993
In this paper, I investigate the status of the instrumental role with respect to the argument-adjunct distinction. I propose that the instrumental role is not an independent θ-role. What is understood as the instrumental role is one among other possible realizations of a more general cause role. When an instrumental occurs together with an agent, the cause role is distributed across the two constituents, and we have a discontinuous role.