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A few more examples of constructions with inanimate agents is displayed below (from Korp):
(42) Samtliga tjuktji-kamtjatkanska språk hotas att ersättas av ryskan.
‘All tjuktji-kamtjatkanskian languages is being threatened to be replaced by Russian.’
(43) De ca 2 000 förarna som avses utbildas för närvarande av trafikskolorna.
’The approximately 2000 drivers are currently intended to be trained by the driving schools.’
(44) Nu under våren blev det också klart att Robot 75 (Maverick) inte avses bäras av svenska JAS 39 Gripen.
’During the spring, it was clearified that Robot 75 (Maverick) is not intended to be carried by the Swedish
JAS 39 Gripen.’
A few examples of constructions containing animate overt agents is given below (from Korp):
(45) (…) en rekommendation om kreativt innehåll på Internet som avses antas av rådet och
Europaparlamentet, (…).
’(…) a recommendation on creative content online which is intended to be adopted by the Council and the
European Parliament (...).’
(46) Det är därför olyckligt att pilotförslaget i Göteborg har fått en sådan utformning att det knappast kan
förväntas accepteras av allmänheten och ligga till grund för en ny lagstiftning.
‘It is therefore unfortunate that the pilot-proposal in Gothenburg have been given such a design that it
can hardly be expected to be accepted by the public, and provide the basis for new legislation.’
(47) Haggwårtas skola hotas att invaderas av souvenirtokiga Muddlarfans.
‘Haggwårtas school is threatened to be overrun by souvenir-crazy Muddlarfans.’
5.2 Syntactic and semantic mapping
5.2.1 Control and argument structures
The mapping showed that an equi verb (cf. 2.4.2.1) in Swedish assigns a semantic role to its subject,
which in turn controls the non-overt subject PRO (cf. 2.4.1) of the infinitival complement (Figure 6).
CONTROLLER CONTROLEE
SUBJ CONTROL
Jane planera-r att PRO sälja bilen.
AGENT (XCOMP) PATIENT
3SG plan-PRS to:COMP sell:INF car:the.
‘Jane plans to sell the car.
Figure 6. An active equi verb with subject control.
The equi verb in (Figure 6) has subject control, and assigns two arguments in the argument structure
which is shown in (48):
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