How do things get done: on non-canonical passives in Finnish
(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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- author
- Heinat, Fredrik LU and Manninen, Satu LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2013
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- 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
- language
- Finnish
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 3c9e74a4-6e86-4645-83d2-1e1fb8dd7340 (old id 3217983)
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- 2016-04-04 11:00:32
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