This paper highlights similarities between two classes of arguably non-canonical passives, namely ‘deponent’ verbs familiar from Latin, and ‘inherent reflexive’ verbs in Germanic and Romance, arguing that the latter are the counterparts of the former – notably, both classes of verbs are denominal/deadjectival. Building on the idea that overt morphological voice markings reflect feature distinctions associated with v0 in the syntax, I argue that the special ‘unaccusative’ morphology (i.e. reflexive or non-active) doesn’t just bear on the absence of an external argument in the syntax, but on the presence of an actor-initiation feature of v0 in syntactic configurations lacking an external argument, which accounts for facts such as the ubiquity of reflexive marking across inherent and non-inherent reflexive predicates, and others.
2024. Agentive reading in the Middle: The structure of Polish reflexiva tantum. Studies in Polish Linguistics 19:1 ► pp. 1 ff.
Christina Sevdali, Dionysios Mertyris & Elena Anagnostopoulou
2024. The Place of Case in Grammar,
Basilico, David
2021. Spanish se as a High and Low Verbalizer. In Unraveling the complexity of SE [Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 99], ► pp. 321 ff.
2023. Deponency. In The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Morphology, ► pp. 1 ff.
Czypionka, Anna, Laura Dörre & Josef Bayer
2018. Inverse Case attraction: experimental evidence for a syntactically guided process. The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 21:2 ► pp. 135 ff.
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