Langages · 1993 · 17 citations · 0 references
Language StudiesLinguisticsPragmaticsSemanticsSyntaxDeixisFigurative LanguageGrammarSyntactic ProcessingSyntactic TypologyPassive Construction VariationPassive ParticiplesPassive Verb FormationSubject - Object RelationSubject-object RelationSyntactic DependenciesSyntax Of The PassiveVerb-object Order
In this article the cases where the passive is blocked are examined. The reasons for this are varied : metaphor, a fixed verb-object relation, deletion of the preposition, incompatibility of certain semantic classes of verbs. The study shows the limitations of a syntactic definition of a property such as the passive, if it is worked out without reference to the lexicon.