As has often been pointed out, the mental grammar in our mind connects a variety of concepts with certain linguistic forms. Investigations into the semantics-syntax interface are therefore one of the central issues in linguistics to pursue the nature of Language. The purpose of this thesis is to discuss meaning-to-form correspondence on the basis of verbal argument structure, focusing on applicative constructions, in which an oblique argument of a predicate verb is promoted to its core argument. While most languages have a means of introducing an argument, the grammaticality of applicative expressions varies cross-linguistically. This thesis considers several conditions under which argument introduction is permitted in English.