R.D.Borsley (r.d.borsley@bangor.ac.uk)
Sun, 29 Dec 1996 11:26:59 +0000 (GMT)
Can anyone offer any help here? Department of Linguistics | URL: http://www.linguistics.bangor.ac.uk/ University of Wales, Bangor | FAX: +44 1248 38 29 28 Bangor LL57 2DG | Wales | Visit our web pages! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 18:24:41 -0600 (CST) From: Annabel Cormack <annabel@linguistics.ucl.ac.uk> To: ELS003@bangor.ac.uk Dear Bob, Do you know if there is anything in the HPSG/GPSG literature about pseudo-passives of the kind 1 The plate has been eaten off. where the matrix verb is transitive? I take it that this ought to be related to 2 John ate custard off the plate and that in some sense it is the custard which comes off the plate, so that implicitly in (1), the same thing came off the plate and was eaten. Best wishes to you all; happpy new year. Annabel.
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