Andreas Kathol (kathol@violet.berkeley.edu)
Thu, 9 Jan 1997 12:23:10 -0800 (PST)
> Olivier Laurens thinks that prepositional passives based on potentially > transitive verbs have to be resultatives (see his message copied below). I > don't think that can be right in view of examples like the following, which > don't seem to allow any kind of resultative reading: > > (1) This spoon has been eaten with. > (2) This page has been written on. > (3) This restaurant was eaten in by the President. > > I suspect the constraints, whatever they are, are the same as for > prepositional passives based on ordinary intransitive verbs. > > > |Do you know if there is anything in the HPSG/GPSG literature about > > |pseudo-passives of the kind The question re. resultative status notwithstanding, there is some discussion of pseudopassives in the following GPSG-based paper: @article{zwicky, author = "Arnold M. Zwicky", title = "Slashes in the Passive", journal = "Linguistics", volume = "25", year = "1987", pages = "639--69" } --Andreas
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