'Creating' as putting something into the world

Dobler (to appear) shows that there are two groups of causative verbs. Whereas the direct object of verbs expressing a change of location (e.g. put) can be interpreted inside the result-state clause, the same is not true for the direct object of change-of-state verbs (e.g. close). In this paper, I show that creation verbs of the build-type pattern with verbs of putting. Interestingly, the distinction cannot be caused by different result-state clauses (PPs vs. APs) but is due to the semantic category of the verb. Finally, I illustrate that this proposal has a crucial advantage over previous decompositional approaches (cf. Dowty 1978).