Non-canonical passives

by Alexiadou, Artemis

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This paper highlights similarities between two classes of arguably non-canonical passives, namely 'deponent' verbs familiar from Latin, and 'inherent reflexive' verbs in Germanic and Romance, arguing that the latter are the counterparts of the former - notably, both classes of verbs are denominal/deadjectival. Building on the idea that overt morphological voice markings reflect feature distinctions associated with v0 in the syntax, I argue that the special 'unaccusative' morphology (i.e. reflexive or non-active) doesn't just bear on the absence of an external argument in the syntax, but on the presence of an actor-initiation feature of v0 in syntactic configurations lacking an external argument, which accounts for facts such as the ubiquity of reflexive marking across inherent and non-inherent reflexive predicates, and others.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2013.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):John Benjamins Pub. Co
Place of Publication:Amsterdam/Philadelphia
Language:eng
Publication Date:2013.

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Description:1 online resource.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9789027255884, 9027255881
oclc:ocn852634182
LC Classification:P299.P4 .N66 2013
Dewey Decimal:415.6

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