Direct Movement Passives in Korean and Japanese
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چکیده
Kuroda (1979) argues that Japanese ni yotte passives are derived by movement of an underlying internal argument to subject position. The socalled syntactic passive pattern in Korean, derived with the bound verb -ci ‘become’, also gives strong evidence for a movement derivation (see Park 2001). Facts like those in (1-3) below support the movement analysis: (1-2) show that subject position is not assigned an underlying thematic role; (3) shows that both Japanese ni yotte and Korean -ci passives induce scope ambiguity.
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