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For questions about the passive, a grammatical voice.
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Why passive light v is defective?
In Chomsky (2000,2001), the passive, along with unaccusative and other forms of participle object constructions, with the light v is considered 'defective' because as Chomsky (2001:6) says: light v of … That's why the DP object in passive sentences has to move for Nominative Case assigning in T and complete the phi-agreement features there. …
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Is there a language which uses 'passive voice' more often than 'active' one?
Most languages I know of make use of 'active' more than 'passive'. It appears that the passive is derived from the 'canonical' active.
Are there any languages that use more passive than active? … Or can a language with only the passive form exist without a canonical active? …
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Passive: illusion or fact?
However, in this book, Milner comes to the conclusion that the 'passive' is an illusion and/or its paradigm doesn't exist. I still don't see what his conclusion is aiming at. … Why considering passive illusory? …
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criteria to distinguish resultative from stative participles?
I was recently reading an article by David Embick (2004) in which he makes a ternary distinction among passive participles: 1. stative 2. resultative 3. eventive, contra. … My question is: Are there any syntactic tests/criteria used to distinguish statives from resultative passive participles? …
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Derivation of Passive according to Principles and Parameters (Jaeggli)
Whilst transforming active into passive voice, two properties are observed:
1'. The passive verb (now eat in (1) will be passivized) in (2) does not assign Accusative case. … Now, let us examine these properties in the passive construction, the first step is the following:
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Data on causatives in Russian and Turkish needed!
anticausative in a crosslinguistic manner, still I need more references on causatives in Turkish and Russian to explore this notion in different syntactic environements and see how it interact with the passive …
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Difference between PRO and OP
I'll try to answer your question although I'm blind to Chinese clause structure. But notice that you wrote PRO in your question. PRO is quite different from pro. Let's consider this sentence:
(1) Zhan …
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