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The so-called psychological predicates have been widely studied in different approaches, as well as in the framework of Lexicon-Grammar (cf. Ruwet 1972; Belletti et Rizzi 1988; Farrell 1989; Cresti 1990; Gross 1995). I present in this paper a preliminary description of syntactic structures where psychological predicates occur in Sanskrit. The comparison with Italian structures shows interesting relationships between forms and functions. In Sanskrit structures with bhi‚-/bhiyas- ‘fear’ the experiencer is morphologically marked by the locative case, not only in elementary sentence structures, but also in structures with causative operators, where transformational processes are to be found. Independently from the differences in form, the comparison with Italian structures sheds light on some interesting similarities, as far as the relationship between the morphosyntactic properties of V-operators and their functions is concerned.