Restrictions on Long Passives in English and Brazilian Portuguese

A Phase-Based Account

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4945352
AutoresMichelle Sheehan (0000-0002-8072-4847, School of English Language, Literature and Linguistics, Newcastle University, [email protected], autor de correspondencia), Sonia Cyrino (0000-0003-1333-3851, Department of Linguistics, University of Campinas, [email protected], autor de correspondencia)
Año2024
Volumen55
Número4
Páginas769-803
Fecha de publicación2024-10-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLinguistic Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0024-3892 • E-ISSN: 1530-9150
EditorialThe MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1162/ling_a_00482
OpenAlexW4286213381
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas57

To explain seemingly idiosyncratic restrictions on long passivization of causative/perception verbs in English and Brazilian Portuguese, we show that (a) long passives are blocked wherever the complement of a causative/perception verb constitutes a VoiceP/ProgP phase; (b) both TP complements and VP complements facilitate long passivization. To account for these patterns, we propose that A-movement can only cross a single phase head due to Chomsky's (2001) (second) Phase Impenetrability Condition and cannot use phase-edge escape hatches, but that T's EPP feature serves to feed A-movement into the matrix clause. In essence, successive-cyclic A-movement is possible only where embedded T is present to facilitate it

Brazilian Portuguese · Complement (music) · Feature (linguistics) · Linguistics · Minimalist program · Movement (music) · Perception · Phase (matter) · Physics · Portuguese · Syntax · Verb · Computer Science · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation