The interaction of adjectival passive and voice

Edit Doron
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem


Tuesday, February 17, 10:30AM, MJH Rm 126




Hebrew adjectival passives with the causative-template differ in their semantics from adjectival passives with other templates. This can readily be accounted for in a framework such as Distributed Morphology, where the template (a functional head) syntactically combines with the root, and allows the derivation both of an unaccusative and a transitive verb from a common root, together with the related adjectival passive. The data appear more problematic for a lexicalist framework where the causative/anticausative alternation relates two separate verbs.