Agentive Causatives in Romance: Accessibility versus Passivization.

Radford, Andrew

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Agentive Causatives in Romance: Accessibility versus Passivization

Radford, Andrew

Journal of Linguistics, 14, 1, 35-58, Mar 78

All modern Romance languages except Rumanian have a class of causative + infinitive construction in which the infinitive subject surfaces as an agentive. This article investigates the question of how agentivization of the infinitive subject is to be handled in these languages. (DS)

Descriptors: French, Grammar, Italian, Language Patterns, Linguistic Theory, Romance Languages, Sentence Structure, Spanish, Surface Structure, Syntax, Transformational Generative Grammar, Verbs

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