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How do things get done: on non-canonical passives in Finnish

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Author

Editor

  • Artemis Alexiadou
  • Florian Schäfer

Summary, in English

In this paper, we argue that, in addition to non-agreeing passives, Finnish has even an agreeing passive. The agreeing passive shows similar behaviour to non-canonical passives in other languages, such as get-passives in English. The agreeing passive differs from ordinary copular constructions in various ways, most importantly in the availability of an event-interpretation. Agreeing and non-agreeing passives have similar structure in the tense and vP domains; the differences between them can be attributed to differences in the selecting heads. Agreeing passives differ from copular constructions in that the latter lack a vP. The selecting heads are, however, the same in the two constructions.

Department/s

Publishing year

2013

Language

Finnish

Pages

213-233

Publication/Series

Non-canonical passives

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

John Benjamins Publishing Company

Topic

  • Languages and Literature

Keywords

  • passives
  • English
  • Finnish

Status

Published

Project

  • When agents disappear: on the morpho-syntax, semantics and informational value of passive, middle and active impersonal constructions

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 9789027255884
  • ISBN: 9789027272270