Voice mismatches beyond passives : sluicing with active impersonal antecedents

Andrew Murphy

doi:10.5817/LB2020-2-5

Voice mismatches beyond passives : sluicing with active impersonal antecedents

Roč.68,č.2(2020)

Andrew Murphy

https://doi.org/10.5817/LB2020-2-5

Trvalý odkaz (handle):
http://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/143289

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Abstrakt

While ellipsis tolerates various kinds of mismatches, sluicing does not allow for a mismatch in active/passive voice between an ellipsis site and its antecedent. Merchant's (2013) analysis of the impossibility of voice mismatches under sluicing involves syntactic identity and different features of the Voice head. I will show that this analysis incorrectly predicts that voice mismatches should be possible in the passive-like active impersonal constructions in Polish, Irish, and Estonian. However, the syntactic identity approach can be rescued by appealing to a different source for the identity violation, analogous to argument structure mismatches.

Klíčová slova:
voice; passive; sluicing

Stránky:
65–83

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