Chapter 9 Deriving Passives with Pragmatic and Semantic Implications: From the Perspectives of Formal and Functional Linguistics
In: Passives Cross-Linguistically
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Akemi Matsuya
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Abstract
This paper has three goals. The first is to reanalyze Japanese passives from formal and functional perspectives. The second is to demonstrate that semantic characteristics of ni-passives (ni-direct and ni-indirect passives) are produced by grammatical nominalization on VoiceP motivated by metonymy in derivation, following Shibatani (2017, 2018a, 2018b). It is also said that ni-yotte passives, which are semantically neutral, are derived without nominalization and VoiceP. Third, it is proposed that CP nominalization triggered by metonymy enables the speaker’s emotional implications, under Grohmann’s (1999) derivation of root infinitives.