Non-Canonical Passives

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 ve...

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Hlavní autoři: Alexiadou, Artemis, Schäfer, Florian
Médium: E-kniha Kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Amsterdam John Benjamins Publishing Company 2013
John Benjamins
Vydání:1
Edice:Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today
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ISBN:9027272271, 9789027272270, 9789027255884, 9027255881
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Shrnutí: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.
Bibliografie:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:9027272271
9789027272270
9789027255884
9027255881
DOI:10.1075/la.205