Non-canonical middles: a study of personal let-middles in German

Pitteroff, Marcel

doi:10.1007/s10828-015-9072-3

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“…( Note, in contrast, that while German does not allow passivization of 'let' at all, it can, according to Pitteroff (2014Pitteroff ( , 2015, form an anticausative of 'let', which then allows the embedded object to get nominative case and move to the matrix subject position. Vikner (1987) discusses what appears to be the same construction in Danish, and gives essentially the same kind of analysis that Pitteroff defends for German.…”

Section: ͗P͘mentioning

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On the Implicit Argument of Icelandic Indirect Causatives

Sigurðsson

Wood²

2021

Linguistic Inquiry

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The goal of this paper is to understand the syntax of Icelandic indirect causatives (ICs), especially with respect to the implicit causee. We show that the complement of the causative verb must be at least as large as a VoiceP, and that it shares some properties with active VoicePs, and others with passive VoicePs. We make sense of this state of affairs by proposing that the causee, while phonetically silent, has an explicit syntactic representation, but as a fP rather than a DP. We further propose that ICs are built by stacking a second VoiceP on top of the lexical verb’s first VoiceP, and that this configuration, along with the underspecified interpretation of fP, leads to a special thematic interpretation of both the causer and the implicit causee. Our analysis suggests that there are certain core ingredients involved in building ICs—such as stacked VoicePs and an underspecified causee—but that the source of these ingredients can vary across languages and constructions, depending on the formal primitives that grammars make available to the language more generally.

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Section: ͗P͘mentioning

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On the Implicit Argument of Icelandic Indirect Causatives

Sigurðsson

Wood²

2021

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“…Indeed, selective long passivization restrictions can be observed in many Indo-European languages: German (Pitteroff 2015), Danish (Sten Vikner, p.c. ), Swedish (Anders Holmberg, p.c.…”

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Restrictions on Long Passives in English and Brazilian Portuguese: A Phase-Based Account

Sheehan

Cyrino

2024

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To explain seemingly idiosyncratic restrictions on long passivization of causative/perception verbs in Brazilian Portuguese and English, we show that: (i) long passives are blocked wherever the complement of a causative/perception verb constitutes a voiceP/progP phase; (ii) both TP complements and VP complements facilitate long passivization. To account for these patterns, we propose that Amovement can only cross a single phase head due to Chomsky’s (2001) (second) Phase Impenetrability Condition, and cannot use phase-edge escape hatches, but T’s EPP feature serves to feed A-movement into the matrix clause. In essence, successive cyclic A-movement is possible only where embedded T is present to facilitate it.

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“…One prediction of this analysis is that an active–passive‐like alternation should be possible on a functional head other than Voice

{}^0

as long as the language involved allows existential closure to apply to that head and has a PP with the right semantics. Moreover, this passivization, like its Voice counterpart in certain circumstances, will not necessarily end up with a morphological reflex (see, e.g., Pitteroff 2014, 2015, Harley 2017b).…”

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On Causee in Sason Arabic

Akkuş

2022

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This article aims to understand the syntax of three causative constructions in Sason Arabic. It demonstrates that in geminate causatives and ‘give’ causatives, the causee is introduced in CauseeP, unlike the embedded agent in ‘make’ causatives, which embed a thematic VoiceP. Despite differing from Voice0$$ {}^0 $$ in several respects, Causee0$$ {}^0 $$, like Voice0$$ {}^0 $$, exhibits an active–passive‐like alternation, which provides independent evidence for an analysis of the passive that treats it as a subtype of the Voice head. The article further distinguishes between geminates and ‘give’ causatives on the basis of the (in)compatibility of the causee with an applied argument. In geminates, Causee0$$ {}^0 $$ and Appl0$$ {}^0 $$ are bundled, and the same argument bears two θ$$ \theta $$‐roles, whereas in other causative constructions, Causee0$$ {}^0 $$ and Appl0$$ {}^0 $$ remain separate, with each argument bearing a distinct θ$$ \theta $$‐role.

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Non-canonical middles: a study of personal let-middles in German

Cited by 15 publications

References 66 publications

On the Implicit Argument of Icelandic Indirect Causatives

On the Implicit Argument of Icelandic Indirect Causatives

Restrictions on Long Passives in English and Brazilian Portuguese: A Phase-Based Account

On Causee in Sason Arabic

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