Topicalization and the question of lexical passives in Chinese

  • 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).

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Author:Randy J. LaPollaORCiDGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1157986
URL:http://victoria.linguistlist.org/~lapolla//rjlapolla/papers/passive.pdf
Document Type:Preprint
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2010/07/19
Year of first Publication:1988
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2010/07/19
GND Keyword:Sinotibetische Sprachen; Chinesisch
Page Number:17
Source:http://victoria.linguistlist.org/~lapolla//rjlapolla/papers/passive.pdf ; (in:) Proceedings of the Third Annual Ohio State University Conference on Chinese Linguistics (May 13-14, 1988), ed. by Marjorie K.M. Chan & Thomas Ernst. - Bloomington, Ind., India
HeBIS-PPN:24700121X
Dewey Decimal Classification:4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache
Sammlungen:Linguistik
Linguistik-Klassifikation:Linguistik-Klassifikation: Syntax
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht