Publications

Publication details [#29648]

Lappin, Shalom and Ur Shlonsky. 1993. Impersonal passives. Linguistics 31 (1) : 5–24.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

impersonal construction | morpheme | passive | syntax1

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter Mouton

ISBN

0024-3949

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/LING/html

Annotation

This study demonstrates that an account of the major syntactic properties of passive morphemes, based on binary-valued lexical features, offers a more comprehensive explanation of passivization facts than competing case-grounded theories.