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Impersonal Passives and the Unaccusative Hypothesis

Year: 1978

Type: article

Abstract: In this paper I give one argument in favor of the advancement analysis of impersonal passives over the demotion analysis. The argument is based on the interaction of this phenomenon with an independently motivated hypothesis about linguistic structure, the Unaccusative Hypothesis.

Source: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society

DOI: 10.3765/bls.v4i0.2198

Author: David M. Perlmutter

Institution: University of California San Diego

Language: English

Topic: Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

Subfield: Language and Linguistics

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W2102904575

FWCI: 19.64

Cites: 8

Cited by: 1,805

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