Case and Grammatical Functions: The Icelandic Passive

Zaenen, Annie; Maling, Joan; Þráinsson, Höskuldur

doi:10.1163/9789004373235_005

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“…These facts are well known and have been discussed and described by many (including Zaenen, Maling & Thráinsson 1985, Sigurðsson 1989, Thráinsson 2007). The corresponding active sentences take various shapes, as sketched in (2), where the case correlations between the active and passive are highlighted in boldface, whereas the object‐controlled agreement in the dat‐nom passive is indicated by underlining:…”

Section: Introduction: the Traditional Passive(s)mentioning

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On the New Passive

Sigurðsson¹

2011

Syntax

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Abstract. The so-called New Passive in Icelandic takes the form Ôit was elected usÕ (or, e.g., Ôthen was elected usÕ, without an expletive), instead of the standard passive form Ôwe were electedÕ. It has neither A-movement to subject nor acc-to-NOM conversion, which are otherwise diagnostic of the canonical passive in Icelandic and related languages. Some researchers have argued that ''passive'' is in fact a misnomer and that the construction should instead be analyzed as an active one, with a nominative pro. This paper argues instead in favor of a minimalist analysis, where the New Passive is closely related to the impersonal P passive (with a PP, type Ôthen was shouted at usÕ), which is highly common and productive in Icelandic. On the approach pursued, acc-to-NOM conversion involves case-star deletion, absent from the New Passive (much as from so-called psych and fate (un)accusatives in standard Icelandic). Additionally, the New Passive has a strong vP phase edge, blocking A-movement, in contrast to the defective vP edge in the canonical passive. The paper argues that A-grounding or ''freezing'' is brought about by /-minimality, A-islands thus arising in a parallel fashion with A¢-islands.

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Section: Introduction: the Traditional Passive(s)mentioning

confidence: 86%

On the New Passive

Sigurðsson¹

2011

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“…In fact, it has been well attested cross‐linguistically (Zaenen et al. , Ura , Bhaskararao & Subbarao , Landau , among many others). The fact that existentials can have either locative (1a) or possessive (1b) meanings is not new either (e.g., Lyons , Clark , Freeze , Heine ).…”

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A Unified analysis of existentials and psych‐constructions in Korean as pseudo‐transitives

Kim

2015

Studia Linguistica

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This paper compares the transitivity of existential and psych-constructions in Korean to canonical transitives and intransitives. It is shown that these constructions are neither transitives nor intransitives. This paper argues that they can be unified as pseudo-transitives (i.e., somewhere between transitives and intransitives) and provides a structural analysis for pseudo-transitives using Appl. Pseudo-transitives provide support for the theory that transitivity is a continuum, and not categorical (Hopper & Thompson 1980).

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“…Given that dative experiencers reportedly have quirky subject properties in Greek (Anagnostopoulou ) and that recipients in Greek do not differ from experiencers regarding such properties (Kupula , ; see also Zaenen, Maling & Thráinsson's original discussion on Icelandic), it is valid to assume that dative‐movement has taken place also in (27).…”

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External Arguments and Dative Cliticization: Evidence of Selective Spell‐out of Functional Heads

Roos

2016

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The paper discusses dative cliticization in Modern Greek in passives and unaccusatives. Based on crosslinguistic evidence, I show that dative cliticization is not implicated in movement operations that violate the Minimal Link Condition (MLC). Instead, the observed cliticization patterns exhaustively reduce to the effects of a generalized form of a Doubly Filled Comp Filter. In particular, I show applicative morphemes can be selectively overt also in Indo-European languages like Greek and that the selective spell-out of these morphemes positively correlates with the absence of external arguments (Spec,vP). The discussion posits an incremental spell-out pattern for complex terminals and highlights the reality of head movement as a syntactic operation. The paper also revisits the claim that clitics constitute a heterogeneous class of items and that their morphosyntactic properties might depend on the transitivity/voice of the hosting predicate.

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Case and Grammatical Functions: The Icelandic Passive

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On the New Passive

On the New Passive

A Unified analysis of existentials and psych‐constructions in Korean as pseudo‐transitives

External Arguments and Dative Cliticization: Evidence of Selective Spell‐out of Functional Heads

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