The prepositional passive as structure-sharing

Alsina i Keith, Àlex

The prepositional passive as structure-sharing

Citació

Alsina A. The prepositional passive as structure-sharing. Dins: Butt M, King TH, editors. Proceedings of the LFG09 Conference; 2009; Cambridge, United Kingdom. Standford: CSLI Publications; 2009. p. 44-64.

Resum

Evidence is reviewed that requires abandoning verb-preposition reanalysis in the derivation of prepositional passives (P-passives). An alternative is proposed in which P-passives are a type of raising construction, where the object of the prepositional complement is structure-shared with the subject of the passive verb. This places the construction within the scope of the Theory of Structure-Sharing (Alsina 2008), which helps explain some of its properties. A proposal is made to account for the phrase-structure of Ppassives and for the crosslinguistic variation regarding the availability of P-passives and preposition stranding.