Passive By-Phrases in Greek and English: Adjuncts or Arguments?
Nikos Angelopoulos, Chris Collins, Arhonto Terzi
October 2018 

Alexiadou et al. (2015:35) argue that Greek by-phrases merge as adjuncts. This is assumed for English and other languages by Bruening (2013) and Legate (2014). Hasegawa (1988), Goodall (1997, 1999), Mahajan (1994) and Collins (2018), on the other hand, argue that the by-phrase merges syntactically as an argument. This paper shows that in Greek and English by-phrases behave like arguments in being able to bind non-exempt anaphors. As a consequence, we argue that external arguments (in both the passive and the active) are not generated in Spec VoiceP, but rather in Spec vP, as in Chomsky (1995).

Format:	[ pdf ]
Reference:	lingbuzz/004208 (please use that when you cite this article)
Published in:	none
keywords:	passive, by-phrase, adjuncts, arguments, reflexives, non-exempt reflexive, greek, english, syntax
previous versions:	v1 [September 2018]
Downloaded:	281 times

 

[ edit this article | back to article list ]