TY - INPR A1 - LaPolla, Randy J. T1 - Topicalization and the question of lexical passives in Chinese N2 - This paper is one argument for a theory of grammatical relations in Chinese in which there are no grammatical relations beyond semantic roles, and no lexical relation-changing rules. As the passive rule is one of the most common relation changing rules cross-linguistically, in this paper I will address the question of whether or not Mandarin Chinese has lexical passives, that is, passives defined as in Relational Grammar (see for example Perlmutter and Postal 1977) and the early Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) literature (e.g. Bresnan 1982), where a 2-arc (object) is promoted to a 1-arc (subject). KW - Sinotibetische Sprachen KW - Chinesisch Y1 - 2010 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/14873 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1157986 UR - http://victoria.linguistlist.org/~lapolla//rjlapolla/papers/passive.pdf ER -