The Basque impersonal is a detransitivized construction where the internal argument only overt and external argument, although semantically present, does not have any morphological reflex. This article argues that, despite its intransitive shape, involves particular kind of Voice projection that we term defective. For case agreement, being defective means having no uninterpretable ϕ features Ca...

This dissertation deals with a family of grammatical constructions which overlap with the meaning of the basic passive and which can be seen as resulting from alterations in grammatical voice. In particular the thesis describes and analyses several related types of construction including the passive, the impersonal, and the anticausative. The main objective of this dissertation is a study of va...

In conversations between native speakers, words such as ‘same’ and ‘identical’ do not usually cause much difficulty. We take it for granted that others use them with the same sense as we do. If it is unclear whether numerical or qualitative identity is intended, a brief gloss such as ‘one thing not two’ for the former or ‘exactly alike’ for the latter removes the unclarity. In this paper, numer...