PPT-Passives

One day there was a and some mouse cheese What do you think happened to the cheese The mouse the cheese The cheese by the mouse. gehrke cristinasanchezm upfedu Workshop on Aspect and Argument Structure of Adjectives and Participles University of Greenwich June 2223 2012 1 Introduction The received view about adjectival passives but recall Alexiadou et al yesterday The externa found in passives, because passives include the external argument introducing little v (e.g. Marantz 2000, Embick 2004), and hence exhibit implicit agent effects. Since the features are interpretable Cases like unwrapped presents could involve either verbal un- ( claim that adjectival passives in Tagalog are unaccusative is compared with the observation that in many other languages, adjectival passives appear to exhibit an unergative argument structure. I expl should have no long passivization, then, and yet long passives are crashingly bad in Dutch.I suggest that the solution is to be found in a very superficial difference between Dutchand German verb clus 2Chinese Passives in Comparative Perspectivev. 3 (1999)1. Introductionthe analysis ofChinese and other East Asian greatthorough synchronic analysis of passive sentences incomplementation abest analyz Acquisition of Language. Lecture 14. Development of Complex Syntax . Announcements. HW 3 is due 3/1 (next Tuesday). Be working on review questions for syntax and morphology. Reminder: No class on Thursday 3/3. Selected References Collins, Peter. 1996. Get - passives in English. World Englishes 15: 43 - 56. Cheshire, Jenny. 2005. Syntactic variation and spoken language. In L. Cornips and K. Corrigan (eds.), the Acquisition of ser and tar by German and English L1 Speakers Joyce Bruhn d The University of Western Ontario Transfer is central to many of the debates on the acquisition of second languages ENG 3306 Unaccusativity ( 비대격 ) and Ergativity ( 능격 ) 2 Intransitives so far: John sneezed. Cognate Objects 3 Normally, intransitives cannot take an object. I dreamed a wonderful dream. I sneezed a terrible sneeze. Agentless Passives and Diagramming the Passive Ed McCorduck English 402--Grammar SUNY Cortland http://mccorduck.cortland.edu “ agentless ” passives – sentences in the passive voice that don’t have a INCOME. ACTIVITIES. PERFORMANCE. PRACTICES. BEST. IDEAS. OBJECTIVES. CONSULTING. EFFICIENT. PLAN. CAPABILITY. TEAM. ASPECT. COST. EXPLANATION. ADVANCE. DIRECT. PROCESS. INFORMATION. STAKEHOLDERS. CHANGE. 1. The Twin Method The twin methoduses differences between correlations for identical and fraternal twins. Identical, or monozygotic (henceforth MZ) twins share 100% of their genes. Fraternal, or d