is paper deals with ‘stacked passives’ in Turkish, an impersonal passive construction with two occurrences of passive morphology and two instances of argument reduction. e aim will be to adequately capture the fact that each instance of passivization seems to be mirrored by a morphological režex on the verb. I will adopt the theory of passivization in Müller (2014), who assumes that passivizati...

To explain seemingly idiosyncratic restrictions on long passivization of causative/perception verbs in English and Brazilian Portuguese, we show that (a) passives are blocked wherever the complement a verb constitutes VoiceP/ProgP phase; (b) both TP complements VP facilitate passivization. account for these patterns, propose A-movement can only cross single phase head due to Chomsky’s (2001) (s...

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the lexical-semantic structure of morphologically derived passive verbs in Korean based on Pustejovsky (1995)'s Generative Lexicon Theory (GL) and to explain the change of the root verb's lexical-semantic structure by means of passivization. Passivization in this paper is defined as the unaccusaztivization. In Argument Structure of derived passive verbs, ...

We propose a Case-driven account of the “reanalysis” operation assumed by some researchers to underlie pseudo-passivization. Contra previous analyses we argue that reanalyzed prepositions do not form a unit with the verb at any level of representation. Rather, reanalyzed prepositions raise to a v/V-medial Agr head, and the complement of the preposition raises to the specifier of this complex he...

Passivization is the grammatical process in which structures of whole sentence, and specifically verb phrase, change. This one main syntactic needs any academic writing. Therefore, English learner to know enough about it by end undergraduate studies. paper, being an empirical one, tests Kurdish learners’ awareness providing instrument. The data scope study are sentences from Kurdish. A cohort e...

Evidence from the Hansard corpus shows that the passive voice in British English has declined in relative frequency over the last two centuries. We investigate which factors are predictive of whether transitive verb phrases are passivized. We show the increasing importance of the person-hierarchy effects observed by Bresnan et al. (2001), with increasing strength of the constraint against passi...