How similar are shared syntactic representations? Evidence from priming of passives in Greek–English bilinguals

Abstract The shared-syntax account of bilingual syntactic representations suggests that similar structures from different languages are represented as one in the mind. In this study, we examined degree morpho-syntactic similarity needed for to be shared mind by comparing passive Greek and English. Contrary English, non-active morphology is not restricted passives “by phrase” considered marked. two structural priming experiments, whether can primed L1-Greek and, subsequently, there a single representation Greek–English bilinguals despite distributional differences. Results showed were (Experiment 1) L2-English 2). Our findings suggest differences inherent do prevent priming, even when featural structure identical.