Passives of reflexive verbs: The repair of a Principle A violation
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In order to identify the basic properties of PoRs and the theoretical questions that follow, consider the German active-passive pair in (3a, b) involving the reflexive use of the verb ‘waschen’ (to wash). As in ordinary passives, the lexical verb in (3b) appears as passive participle and the passive auxiliary werden (to become) is used. The external argument disappears (but it can reappear in a by-phrase as will be shown later). The PoRs in (1), (2) and (3b) lack a (overt) nominative DP, i.e. PoRs are (typically) instances of ‘impersonal passives’. Finally, the reflexive pronoun does not change its shape under passivization: it does not shift to nominative as referential objects would but it keeps its accusative. While this
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