Abstract
The vast majority of roots in English show uniform selectional properties across their various instantiations in verbs, nouns, or adjectives:
Acknowledgement
Thanks to audiences at Cornell, the Berkeley Linguistics Society, UC-Santa Cruz, the University of Minnesota, the Zentrum füur Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Cambridge Comparative Syntax 6, and Roots V, and especially to Andrew Nevins, Julie Legate, Theresa Biberauer, Hagit Borer, and David Adger for invaluable feedback.
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