Impersonal se Constructions in Romance and the Passivization of Unergatives

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4861808
AutoresCarmen Dobrovie-Sorin (15, promeneé des Terrasses, 94 200 Ivry, France), Carmen Dobrovie‐sorin (0000-0002-8658-9746, autor correspondente)
Ano1998
Volume29
Fascículo3
Páginas399-437
Data de publicação1998-07-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoLinguistic Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0024-3892 • E-ISSN: 1530-9150
EditoraMIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1162/002438998553806
OpenAlexW2145325599
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas36
Referências citadas15

Romance constructions of the type SE Vunerg (e.g., si dorme) are shown to rely not only on nominative SE, as in Italian finite clauses, but also on accusative middle-passive SE. The latter analysis is needed for Romanian, because this language does not have nominative SE, as well as for Italian nonfinite clauses, in which nominative SE is illegitimate. According to my restatement of Cinque's (1988) generalizations, [+/−1arg] features are not needed. I assume a constrained theory of passivization, according to which the suspended Agent role cannot surface in the syntax as either -en or SE. The passivization of unergatives depends on analyzing unergatives as transitives with null cognate objects

Linguistics · Nominative case · Romance languages · Romanian · Syntax · Verb · Computer Science · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychology · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation