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When the VP topic in English appears in the sentence whose predicate is individual-level, its trace within the individual-level predicate is bound to the event operator (i.e., preposed VP topic in the spec of CP). When the individual-level predicate appears in the lower clause of the periphrastic causative construction, the eykey-marked causee in the periphrastic causative construction obligatorily undergoes case-alternation to the lul-marked causee, which induces the lower individual-level predicate to get a caused event. The accusative- marked causee in the periphrastic causative construction undergoes movement from the matrix VP-adjoined position to the matrix spec of the vP to be assigned specificity against the matrix v. When an event operator (i.e., specific or topic argument with discourse effects here) in the matrix clause is coindexed with the pro or pronoun in the lower individual-level predicate of the periphrastic causative construction, the lower individual-level predicate comes to have a caused event.