A Note on the Productivity of the Alternative Embedded Passive

Duncan, Daniel

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“…Edelstein (2014:244) cited DESERVE and REQUIRE as evidence that the concealed passive "allows a wider array of matrix verbs" than the AEP. However, as the list of attested AEP matrix verbs above shows, "the AEP is more productive than the literature describes" (Duncan 2019:3; see also Duncan 2021). Generally, it seems that the AEP and concealed passive can be formed from an identical set of matrix verbs.…”

Section: Need+ing and Other Concealed Passivesmentioning

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“…A tweet from an unknown location provides the example, "Surely Lineker requires fired for that." See also Duncan (2021). 5.…”

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“…Edelstein (2014:258-259) confirmed this implicational scale in acceptability judgments in Pittsburgh. Additional verbs that take past participle passive complements include could use (Tenny 1998:596), could stand (Doyle 2012), deserve , love , hate , wish , and hope (Duncan 2021).…”

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“…4.A targeted search of Twitter shows that require can also be used in the AEP. A tweet from an unknown location provides the example, “Surely Lineker requires fired for that.” See also Duncan (2021).…”

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Regional Variation and Syntactic Derivation of Low-frequencyneed-passives on Twitter

Strelluf

2022

Journal of English Linguistics

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This paper examines constructions formed by the verb need taking a passivized complement. While previous dialectological, sociolinguistic, and micro-syntactic analyses have focused primarily on the past-participle complement (need+ED) as a regional syntactic variable, this study expands the purview of need-passives to examine gerund-participle (need+ING) and infinitival (need+TO) complements. It also looks beyond purported need+ED regions to examine need-passive variation in Englishes spoken around the world. Data from Twitter confirm previous findings that need+ED is a productive feature of the US Midland, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Tyneside, England. However, tweets also show that need+ING is produced disproportionately frequently in England and Wales. These results reveal a more complex pattern of need-passive variation in global Englishes than has previously been reported. Additionally, a transitive construction formed with need as a matrix verb is examined and found to co-vary regionally with need+ING. Syntactic analyses of tweets reveal similarities in the ways that need+ED and need+ING vary with need+TO. These findings lead to a proposed syntactic analysis that need+ED and need+ING share the same derivational structure. More generally, the work argues for greater attention in linguistic research to low-frequency features.

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“…A tweet from an unknown location provides the example, "Surely Lineker requires fired for that." See also Duncan (2021). 5.…”

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Regional Variation and Syntactic Derivation of Low-frequencyneed-passives on Twitter

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2022

Journal of English Linguistics

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“…76 The Sunday Business Post would later report that the example of Knox "turn[ing] cartwheels" in the police station helped explain "the reasons why so many people had come to regard her with suspicion." 77 That the public clung to "Amanda's notorious cartwheel"-an act not only irrelevant to the homicide, but also potentially fabricated-as a means of determining she was "evil, depraved, or dangerous" 78 illustrates how the community was incapable of understanding a self-death habitus, was unable to understand how someone who believed that "it could have been me" could have failed to acculturate her body to their social expectations. Indeed, the social imaginary surrounding the cartwheel bespeaks how the "failed" ritual body-the one that (sometimes literally) choreographs different modes of grief performance-not only generates heightened suspicion, but through the captivation of international attention, also manages to congeal a social body, an international community ("us") that excises the non-normative individual (an "evil, depraved .…”

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How the Conflation Of 'Inappropriate' Grief With Guilt Compromises The Sixth Amendment Right To Fair Trial

Chazen¹

2022

UCLA Criminal Justice Law Review

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On an imperfect American criminal legal landscape, evidence about a defendant's inability to appropriately perform grief about and/or towards a victim often colors how judges, juries, and the public understand their relationship to criminality. It is on this imperfect American criminal legal landscape that the subject of this paper-grief performance and its relationship to constructions of guilt-is born.I argue that a real ritual dissonance transpires when an individual loses someone close to them to a traumatizing form of death-that is, in an extremely violent or unexpected way. On the one hand, one's body finds itself expected to conform to social norms regarding grief and mourning. On the other, one's experience is so anomalous as to potentially make it unfathomable for them to do so. The resulting grief performance is one that is at once produced by the grieving self to process incomprehensible trauma and recognized by a perceiving community as a social oddity, a ritualized failure incapable of being understood by the surrounding community. Because the community cannot comprehend the griever's performance, suspicion begins to surround the griever. People begin to realize, "she did not cry"; "she was cold"; "she did cartwheels"; "she spoke on television"; "she spent exorbitant amounts of money," and so they assume she must have had a hand in orchestrating the death of the person close to her. This process can be understood as creating a "grief-guilt" complex, as improper grief performance produces and generates presuppositions of a person's guilt. * J.D. Candidate, Harvard Law School Class of 2022. Special thanks to Rebecca Richman-Cohen, who offered exceptional guidance throughout the writing process and whose course, 'Seeing Criminal Injustice' opened my eyes to how the language of law could be inflected by more than just written rules and doctrine. Thanks also to the faculty in the English and Religion Departments at Haverford College, who introduced me to the worlds of Performance, Ritual, Grief and Trauma Studies, and to whom I am deeply indebted. 157 Innocent UntIl Proven UngrIevIng 31. Arnold van Gennep, The Rites of Passage 10-11 (Monika R. Vizedom & Gabriel L. Caffee trans., Univ. of Chi. Press 1960). 32. So too do funerary rites have elements of separation, transition, and incorporationfor the deceased. First, in the separation stage, the deceased individual is demarcated as deceased and ritually prepared for burial. Second, in the liminal stage, she becomes a centerpiece in the process of worship, prayer, and memory, awaiting burial. And finally, in the incorporation stage, she is buried, allowed to be fully incorporated into the "community" of the lost.

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11. Variation in Morphosyntax

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Zanuttini

2023

Publication of the American Dialect Society

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A Note on the Productivity of the Alternative Embedded Passive

Cited by 4 publications

References 12 publications

Regional Variation and Syntactic Derivation of Low-frequencyneed-passives on Twitter

Regional Variation and Syntactic Derivation of Low-frequencyneed-passives on Twitter

How the Conflation Of 'Inappropriate' Grief With Guilt Compromises The Sixth Amendment Right To Fair Trial

11. Variation in Morphosyntax

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