To appear in BLS 28, 2002. Change of State Verbs: Implications for Theories of Argument Projection1 MALKA RAPPAPORT HOVAV The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

The first hypothesis, that argument projection is aspectually driven, finds perhaps its earliest explicit statement as Tenny’s (1987, 1992, 1994) Aspectual Interface Hypothesis and has subsequently been quite widely adopted (e.g., Arad 1998, Borer 1998). Proponents of this hypothesis often establish a connection between direct objecthood and notions such as telicity (van Hout 1996, Ritter & Rosen 1998), incremental theme (Rothstein 2000), measure (Tenny 1994), or subject of result (Borer 1998). This hypothesis is tied explicitly to the phenomena in (1)-(2) by van