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This paper deals with the causativization of the verb 'run'. In section 2, I review Pinker's(1989) lexical rules on the causativization of the English verbs. Then some problems and disadvantages
of his lexical rules are pointed out. In section 3, I will discuss the lexical semantic structures and the causativization and logical polysemy of the verb 'run"e in terms of Pustejovsky's(1995) Generative Lexicon Theory and the co-composition generative mechanism. And then some problems of Generative Lexicon Theory are pointed out. In section 4, I review the semantic network, profile shift, metaphor in Cognitive Grammar. Then I argue that the generative mechanism of Cognitive Grammar is more appropriate in dealing with the causativization of the verb 'run'.