An Implicit Projected Argument in Spanish Impersonal- and Passive-SeConstructions

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ID4238143
AutoresJonathan E Macdonald (0009-0001-8878-8554, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, autor de correspondencia)
Año2017
Volumen20
Número4
Páginas353-383
Fecha de publicación2017-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSyntax (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1368-0005 • E-ISSN: 1467-9612
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/synt.12146
OpenAlexW2766482885
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas18
Referencias citadas50

This article argues for the presence of an implicit projected argument in Spec,Voice in Spanish impersonal- and passive-seconstructions. The main empirical support comes from an available inalienable-possession interpretation of the sole overtDPwhen it is a body part in both constructions. This interpretation is only possible in the presence of a syntactically present c-commanding possessor. I argue that the implicit projected external argument serves as the inalienable possessor of the body part. Neither the periphrastic passive nor the anticausative-seconstruction in Spanish allows an inalienable-possession interpretation of the sole overtDPwhen it is a body part. In these instances, I claim, no implicit argument projects in Spec,Voice. I discuss how the presence of a projected argument in Spec,Voice is responsible forby-phrase restrictions in impersonal- and passive-seconstructions and person restrictions in passive-seconstructions; the lack of a projected implicit argument in Spec,Voice of both the periphrastic passive and the anticausative-seconstruction is responsible for the lack of the person restrictions in both, and the lack ofby-phrase restrictions in the periphrastic passive

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