The Double Passive in Swedish - Institutionen för lingvistik ...

Contents
Abbrevations ......................................................................................... 8
1. Introduction .................................................................................... 9
2. Background ................................................................................... 10
2.1 Swedish in brief ................................................................ 10
2.2 Passive voice ..................................................................... 11
2.3 Lexical functional grammar .................................................. 12
2.4 Constituents of the Double Passive ...................................... 14
2.4.1 Infinitival complements and PRO ....................... 14
2.4.2 Matrix verbs .................................................. 15
2.4.2.1 Equi verbs ................................. 15
2.4.2.2 Raising verbs ............................. 15
2.4.3 Demoted agents ............................................ 16
2.4.3.1 Non-overt agents ......................... 16
2.4.3.2 Animacity ................................... 16
2.5 Double Passive constructions .............................................. 17
2.6 Restrictions on the Double Passive ...................................... 18
2.6.1 Expletive SUBJ and extra PREP ........................ 18
2.6.2 Lack of control ............................................... 19
2.7 Restrictions on the verbs .................................................... 19
2.7.1 Only passive infinitives ................................... 19
2.7.2 Deponents .................................................... 19
2.7.3 Parasitic marking ........................................... 20
2.8 Subject and object control .................................................. 21
2.9 Complementizers and integration ......................................... 22
3. Purpose ........................................................................................ 26
4. Method .......................................................................................... 27
4.1 Corpus research ................................................................ 27
4.1.1 Data ............................................................. 27
4.1.2 Material ........................................................ 27
4.1.2.1 Corpora .............................................. 27
4.1.2.2 Tool for analysis .................................. 28
4.1.3 Procedure of the corpus research (in brief) ........ 28
4.2 Syntactic and semantic mapping ......................................... 28
4.2.1 Control and argument structures ...................... 28
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