(2) Japanese 'break' Rika-ga isu-o kowashi-ta Rika-NOM chair-ACC break-PAST "Rika broke the chair" Rika-ga kabin-o Rika-NOM vase-ACC break-PAST "Rika broke the vase" These examples show that different realizations have the same subcategorization in both the source and target languages.
one cannot rely on the use of syntactic surface forms to differentiate the semantic features of these verbs.