is paper deals with ‘stacked passives’ in Turkish, an impersonal passive construction with two occurrences of passive morphology and two instances of argument reduction. e aim will be to adequately capture the fact that each instance of passivization seems to be mirrored by a morphological režex on the verb. I will adopt the theory of passivization in Müller (2014), who assumes that passivizati...

the definition and typological description of the category of voice can be provided in two ways: i) at the level of semantic arguments (or semantic roles), ii) at the level of grammatical relations (or syntactic functions). the most important theoretical concept that is determined in terms of these two levels of representations and enables one to capture the rich variety of voices is that of di...

1. Helenine prevents the establishment in mice of passive viral immunity by anti-Semliki serum of swine, rabbit, or guinea pig origin. 2. A period of 12 days must elapse, between the antiviral serum administration and challenge with virus, for prevention of the establishment of passive immunity to become apparent. This period is believed to correspond to that in which injected antibody persists...

case features are assigned configurationally to the Th-roles in a predicate’s Semantic Form. They cannot be idiosyncratic lexical properties of specific Th-roles, and their assignment cannot be specific to particular predicates. This means that the abstract Case feature [+HR] always defines the highest syntactically visible Th-role of a predicate, its “subject”. Given the previously introduced ...

Manning, C.D. and Sag, I. A. 1998 Argument Structure, Valence, and Binding Nordic Journal of Linguistics This paper develops within HPSG a model of grammar with two syntactic levels, valence lists and argument structure, at which sentences may have di erent representations: syntactically ergative and Western Austronesian languages are distinctive by allowing di erent prominence orderings betwee...