The class of prepositional passivizable verbs in English
| Autor: | Concha Castillo |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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| Zdroj: | Acta Linguistica Hafniensia. 42:143-174 |
| ISSN: | 1949-0763 0374-0463 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/03740463.2010.521444 |
| Popis: | The objectives of this paper are to analyse the semantic determinants of the prepositional passive using verb meaning as a criterion, and to discuss related theoretical perspectives using corpus data. A coarse-grained classification of prepositional verbs is implemented, as a result of which activity verbs and verbs of experience are both acknowledged as passivizable predicates on a general basis. Assuming the paradigm of agentivity properties as proposed in Dowty (1991) and related literature, it is argued that [cause] and [sentience] are both necessary and sufficient in order to explain the passivizability of the above-mentioned verb types or classes. It is claimed that [cause] ranks higher than [sentience] for (transitive) active structures but not for prepositional passive structures, and that [animacy] lies at the bottom of this contrast. Although object affectedness is assumed to be part of the definition of [cause], and therefore not to be a necessary condition for the prepositional passive, object... |
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