Within the last twenty years and in the framework of transformational grammar at least seven kinds of se have been proposed: spurious se, reflexive se, reciprocal se, pronominal se, impersonal se, passive se and se moyen. Each of these se's shows its own syntactic and semantic characteristics. In this article, in the framework of the Theory of Government and Binding, an eighth type of se, the impersonal passive se, is proposed. Similar to the passive se, it is passive in interpretation; however, unlike passive se, and similar to the impersonal se, it has an impersonal subject. The different syntactic properties this new se exhibits are shown to follow from the principles of universal grammar.
2021. SE in Spanish. Borealis – An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics 10:2 ► pp. 1 ff.
Mendikoetxea, Amaya
2008. Clitic impersonal constructions in Romance: syntactic features and semantic interpretation1. Transactions of the Philological Society 106:2 ► pp. 290 ff.
Mendikoetxea, Amaya
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Jackson-Maldonado, Donna, Ricardo Maldonado & Donna J. Thal
1998. Reflexive and middle markers in early child language acquisition: evidence from Mexican Spanish. First Language 18:54 ► pp. 403 ff.
Turley, Jeffrey S.
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