TY - JOUR
T1 - ON THE PASSIVE EXISTENTIAL CONSTRUCTION
AU - Law, Paul
PY - 1999/12
Y1 - 1999/12
N2 - Presenting a cluster of facts regarding extraction, the distribution of adverbs and binding, this paper argues that the passive existential construction is not a matrix passive sentence but an existential construction in which the copula verb be takes a DP complement adjoined by a reduced relative clause, instead of a small clause complement. It accounts for the event interpretation of the construction, a reading that is shared by a matrix passive sentence, by binding of the event-variable.
AB - Presenting a cluster of facts regarding extraction, the distribution of adverbs and binding, this paper argues that the passive existential construction is not a matrix passive sentence but an existential construction in which the copula verb be takes a DP complement adjoined by a reduced relative clause, instead of a small clause complement. It accounts for the event interpretation of the construction, a reading that is shared by a matrix passive sentence, by binding of the event-variable.
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U2 - 10.1111/1467-9582.00044
DO - 10.1111/1467-9582.00044
M3 - RGC 21 - Publication in refereed journal
SN - 0039-3193
VL - 53
SP - 183
EP - 208
JO - Studia Linguistica
JF - Studia Linguistica
IS - 3
ER -