Event passives
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Event passives are verbal passives of causative predcates which involve only a causing event and no agent. Studying this kind of passive, I critically review the popular claim in research on passives and implicit arguments that verbal passives semantically always include an implicit argument (Bhatt & Pancheva 2006). I contend that this view is not very reasonable from a semantic perspective. More specifically, I argue that a proper semantic analysis leaves the semantic role Causer and the Voice projection superfluous in event passives.
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