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How do things get done: on non-canonical passives in Finnish

Heinat, Fredrik LU orcid and Manninen, Satu LU (2013) p.213-233
Abstract
In this paper, we argue that, in addition to non-agreeing passives, Finnish has even an agreeing passive. The agreeing passive shows similar behaviour to non-canonical passives in other languages, such as get-passives in English. The agreeing passive differs from ordinary copular constructions in various ways, most importantly in the availability of an event-interpretation. Agreeing and non-agreeing passives have similar structure in the tense and vP domains; the differences between them can be attributed to differences in the selecting heads. Agreeing passives differ from copular constructions in that the latter lack a vP. The selecting heads are, however, the same in the two constructions.
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passives, English, Finnish
host publication
Non-canonical passives
editor
Alexiadou, Artemis and Schäfer, Florian
pages
213 - 233
publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN
9789027255884
9789027272270
project
When agents disappear: on the morpho-syntax, semantics and informational value of passive, middle and active impersonal constructions
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Finnish
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yes
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3c9e74a4-6e86-4645-83d2-1e1fb8dd7340 (old id 3217983)
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2016-04-04 11:00:32
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  abstract     = {{In this paper, we argue that, in addition to non-agreeing passives, Finnish has even an agreeing passive. The agreeing passive shows similar behaviour to non-canonical passives in other languages, such as get-passives in English. The agreeing passive differs from ordinary copular constructions in various ways, most importantly in the availability of an event-interpretation. Agreeing and non-agreeing passives have similar structure in the tense and vP domains; the differences between them can be attributed to differences in the selecting heads. Agreeing passives differ from copular constructions in that the latter lack a vP. The selecting heads are, however, the same in the two constructions.}},
  author       = {{Heinat, Fredrik and Manninen, Satu}},
  booktitle    = {{Non-canonical passives}},
  editor       = {{Alexiadou, Artemis and Schäfer, Florian}},
  isbn         = {{9789027255884}},
  keywords     = {{passives; English; Finnish}},
  language     = {{fin}},
  pages        = {{213--233}},
  publisher    = {{John Benjamins Publishing Company}},
  title        = {{How do things get done: on non-canonical passives in Finnish}},
  year         = {{2013}},
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