Index
acceptability judgment task
365, 366, 372, 376 ff., 383, 385, 388
accomplishment
186
accuracy
367, 368, 372 f., 377, 381 f.
accusative
44, 82, 161, 186, 188, 220, 273, 297
absorption
3, 5, 24, 82, 90, 187, 309, 311
prepositional accusative
160, 162, 186
A-chain Deficit Hypothesis
394
actional verbs
394 f., 396 f., see also non-actional verbs
active morphology
213 f., 231, 247, 250, 252, 286, 400, see also non-active morphology
activity feature
267 f., 270, 272
adjectival
passive
see passive (adjectival)
participles
see participle (adjectival)
adverbs
agentive adverbs
263, 266, 272
aspectual adverbs
342, 345 f., 350, 350 (fn30), 354
duration adverbial
72 f.
manner adverbs
155, 184, 283, 292 ff., 299
of quantification
28, 28 f. (fn10)
repetitive adverbs
294 f.
restitutive adverbs
294 f.
purpose adverbs
295 f.
root modal adverbs,
see root modal
subject oriented adverbs
283, 292 ff., 299
telic adverbials
259 f.
affectedness
182, 196 ff., 200, 203 f., 205, 317 f., 322 f.
Affectedness Constraint
197, 395 (fn1)
feature
200, 203, 205
agent
81, 99, 102, 127, 223, 226, 229, 258, 265 f., 295, 297 f., 300 ff., 324, 331, 361, 397, 421 see also demotion (agent)
AgentPhrase
300 f.
implicit
65, 102, 248, 270 ff.
agentive
adverb
see adverb (agentive)
argument
118, 292, 295, 298, 300 f.
oblique phrase see oblique phrase
subject
293, 294, 296
Agree
27, 45, 46, 81, 153
long-distance
154
agreement
89, 110, 114 ff., 119, 124
adverbial
155
default
116, 146, 148
participle
103, 118, 132, 142 ff., 147, 148, 153 ff., 158, 166
Albanian
5, 212, 286 f.
analytic passive
see passive (analytic)
animacy
126, 140, 261, 262, 317 f.
anticausative
5, 229, 232 f., 247, 257, 265, 269, 275, 278, 282 ff., 287 ff.
analytic
284
morphology
5, 233, 250 f., 284 ff., 285 (fn4), 286, 287 ff., 288 (fn10), 291 f., 298 f.
synthetic
284
aorist
217, 217 (fn3), 222, 231 f.
(agrammatic) aphasia
398 f., 409 ff., 420, 427 ff.
Arabic
89 ff., 284 ff., 287 ff., 294 ff.
argument structure nominal
297, 301
aspect
68, 72, 76, 87, 99 ff., 186, 214 f., 231, 254, see also adverb (aspectual)
AspectPhrase
187
auxiliary
71, 73, 75, 79 f., 85, 92, 99 f., 104 f., 238, 348 f.
passive
see passive (auxiliary)
selection
75, 76, 103
bare adjective
69
BE-passive
139 f., 162
Binding Principles
A
27
C
27
Broca’s aphasia
398, 409 ff., 427
Burzio’s Generalization
161
by-phrase
1, 19, 26, 28, 65, 67 f., 82, 99, 126, 131, 140, 162, 184, 204, 218, 229, 250, 256, 261, 309, 333, 363, 396 f., 398, 400 f.
cartography
129
Case
absorption
see accusative (absorption)
accusative
see accusative
Case Filter
3
inherent vs. structural
160 ff., 186
nominative
see nominative
Catalan
76, 171 ff.
causative
alternation
233, 252, 282 ff.
head, caus
288, 289, 291 ff., 295, 302
phrase, causP
288, 302
causativity
282 ff., 297 ff.
coercion
368, 383, 387, 388
cognate
object (null)
125, 127, 131, 220, 258 ff., 277
preposition
175, 200, 203 f.
comprehension (task)
359, 362 f., 364 f., 368, 371, 379, 383 f., 386 f., 402, 409, 427, 429
constructionist (approach)
282
neoconstructionist
191
control
16, 17, 27, 28, 29, 30, 39 f., 45, 48, 102, 110, 113, 114, 143, 147, 150 f., 152, 159 f., 163 f., 227, 263, 266
of absolutives
220
object
16, 19, 53 f.
subject
16, 53 f., 138, 163 f., 220
shift
48
copula
79, 83, 86, 90 f., 184
copy theory (of movement)
194 f.
dative
4, 110, 141, 160 f., 223, 224 f., 226, 227, 331, 332 (fn17)
DativeP
335, 337
demotion
agent
65 f., 162, 165, 217 f., 220, 222 f., 224, 226 f., 228, 235
argument
17, 24, 210
deontic
modality
99, 109, 111 f., 129, see also modal (deontic)
passive
see passive (deontic)
Distributed Morphology
194
‘deficient-syntax’ account
425, 427
‘delay’ account
425
Down syndrome
420, 425 ff.
ECM (Exceptional Case Marking)
66, 105, 138, 142, 148, 150 f., 152
economy
156 ff.
epistemic modality
see modal (epistemic)
equidistance
158
eventive
passive
see passive (eventive)
predicate/verb
66, 68, 69 f., 72, 74, 92, 301 (fn24), 360, 366, 383
nominals
291, 297 f., 300 f.
(infinitival) exclamatives
342 ff.
existential
existentially bound
7, 102, 229, 401
perfect
see perfect (existential)
quantification
26, 131, 401
expectation-based theories
364, 385
external
argument
75, 87, 99, 103, 115, 118, 124, 131, 211, 229, 252, 259, 271, 292, 296, 298, 300, 309, 313, 336, 400 f.
theta-role
124, 125, 126, 157, 161, 309, 310, 312, 336
externalization
423 f., 425, 429
frequency (of passives)
399 (fn3), 405
French
69, 80, 117 (fn36), 124, 173 f.
from-phrase
261
gerund
201 f., 202 (fn13)
Good Enough account (of processing)
360, 361, 362, 364, 374, 385, 422, 428
German
15 ff., 75, 76, 78, 90, 101, 119, 119 (fn37), 246, 329 f., 342, 398, 401
Greek
247, 252, 286 f., 394 ff., 399 ff.
Ancient
212, 213 ff., 222 ff.
Cypriot
408
Modern
5, 6, 212, 218, 233
Hebrew
212, 282, 285 (fn4), 289, 414
high passive
see passive (high)
impaired passive
see passive (impaired)
impersonal
107, 110, 110 (fn18), 112, 119, 122 f., 124, 126, 130, 132
passive
119, 119 (fn37)
verb
104, 110 (fn22), 114
inchoative
212, 231 f., 233, 235, 237, 238 f., 286 (fn6)
incorporation
174 f., 193 f., 195 f., 200, 203 f.
intransitive (verb)
121, 172, 175, 178, 192, 220, 237, 255 f., 271 (fn10), 284, 336
morphology
275
irrealis
342, 343, 345
Italian
80, 100 f., 103, 123 ff., 138 ff., 141 f., 160 f., 166, 173 f.
Southern Italian dialects
138 ff.
Japanese
3, 5, 308 ff.
Kharia
274 ff.
language acquisition
362, 366, 394 ff., 402 ff., 422 f.
Late Insertion
175, 194 f., 196, 200
Latin
5, 98, 112 (fn25), 286, 288
light verb
81, 248, 253, 256 ff., 267, 270, 275 f., 277
little n
291
little v
5, 24, 47, 81, 83, 87, 88 ff., 102 f., 267 f., 278, 288 f.
flavors of
87, 89, 101, 103, 211 (fn1), 235 f., 289, 289 (fn13)
weak
47, 267, 268 f., 278
locality
283 (fn2)
domain
47
on roots
289 f.
Locus Preservation Hypothesis
422, 423, 429 f.
long passive
see passive (long)
long-distance passive
see passive (long distance)
low passive
see passive (low)
medio-passive
see passive (medio-passive)
Merge
21, 31, 40
metonymy
324, 331, 348, 354
middle
124, 124 (fn48), 125 f., 130, 212, 218, 247, 250 f., 252 ff., 257 ff., 268 f., 271, 275, 278, 286 (fn6), 401, see also passive, see also non-actives
Middle (head)
401, 412 f.
inflection
77 f.
morphology
212, 216
minimal
minimal domain
158 f.
Minimal Link Condition
157
minimalist approach/framework
32, 103, 129
Minimalist Program
310, 331
minimality
7 f.
Relativized Minimality
398
violation of
8, 335
Mirror Principle
216
modal
71, 106, 109, 342, see also root modal interpretation, root modal adverbs
auxiliary
105, 109, 115, 129, 348 f.
deontic
99, 104, 106, 109 f., 112, 113, 119, 129, see also deontic (modal), passive (deontic)
epistemic
109 f., 112 f.
evaluation time
74
feature
105, 128
head
129
meaning
99, 105, 106, 119
passive
115, 115 (fn31), 129
verb
66, 68, 81, 99, 113
movement
32 (fn15), 35 f., 51 f., 103, 194, 271, 359, 362, 394, 397 f. see also copy theory (of movement)
A-movement
153 ff., 166, 398
control as
139, 139 (fn2), 331
NP-movement
2, 3, 5, 147, 153, 155, 157, 161, 197, 309, 311, 331
Naturally Disjoint Verbs
401, 403 ff., 409 f.
Neapolitan
138, 141, 147, 149
negation (scope of)
33 f.
neoconstructionist approach
191
ni-passives
308, 311, 317, 321, 330, 349, 354
ni-direct passives
3, 311 ff., 317, 329 f., 331 f., 338 f., 342, 346 f., 348 f., 354
ni-indirect passives
3, 311 ff., 317, 319, 323, 331, 336 f., 339, 354
ni-yotte passives
311, 314, 331 f., 341 f., 354
nominalization
308 f., 319 f., 324 ff.
nominative
3, 24, 24 (fn8), 44, 46, 51 f., 81, 161, 204, 220, 270, 273, 309
non-actional verbs
394 f., 396 f., see also actional verbs
non-actives / non-active voice
246 ff., 254, 255 ff., 258 f., 267, 271 f., 274 ff.
morphology
89 f., 286 f., 286 (fn7), 399, 411
oblique phrase
248 f., 267 ff., 271, 272 f., 275
semantics
261 ff.
Odia
246 ff., 251, 253 ff., 261 ff., 267 ff.
off-line
measures
422 f.
processing
359, 363, 366
Old English
77 f.
on-line
measures
422
processing
359, 363, 366
parsing
53 (fn26), 360, 361, 364, 365, 367
participle
adjectival
67 f., 69 f., 71 ff., 77 f., 88 f., 90 f., 121 (fn43), 174
adjectival passive
64, 67 ff., 76 f., 80 ff., 89, 91, 183
agreement
see agreement (participle)
diachrony
77 ff.
passive
75, 99, 120, 121, 157, 171 ff., 174, 183, 184, 187
past
64, 99, 201, 400
perfect
64, 71 ff., 75, 76 f., 80 ff., 92
resultant state
68 f.
resultative
183 f., 203
target state
68 f.
verbal
67 ff., 70, 78 f., 80
verbal passive
64, 65 ff., 76 f., 80 ff., 183
passive
adjectival
4, 64, 67 f., 70, 71 f., 78 ff., 87, 89 f., 183, 394, 396
analytic
65, 99 ff., 238, 412 ff.
auxiliary
24, 65, 99, 104, 106, 114, 119, 126, 128 ff., 139, 147, 148, 149, 150, 157, 166
deontic
98, 104 ff., 106, 113
eventive
101, 183, 222 f., 366, 370, 372 f., 376 f., 380 f.
impaired
419 ff.
high
211, 229, 231
long
163, 230, 408, 409 f., 423, 426
long-distance
15 f., 18, 19 f., 19 (fn4), 39 ff., 49 ff.
low
210 ff., 240
medio-passive
229, 247 f., 250 f., 253, 257, 258 f., 260, 268 f., 272 f., 275
middle
see middle
Pass (head)
400 f.
periphrastic
88 f., 105, 124
(non-)reversible
420 f., 423, 427, 429
short
1, 229, 332 (fn18), 337, 397, 400, 408, 423, 426
stative
101, 360, 366, 370, 373, 375 f., 377, 381, 383
synthetic
88 ff., 98, 210, 238, 394 ff., 399
truncated
421
verbal
64, 65 ff., 74 f., 76, 78 ff., 90, 183, 396, see also participle (verbal passive)
passive morphology
3, 16, 17, 157, 187, 201, 203, 211 f., 213 f., 216, 238, 248 f., 253, 264, 274, 285 f., 291, 297 f., 312, 333, 400; see also voice morphology, see also non-active (morphology)
derivational
214, 215, 217 ff., 222, 225 f., 228, 231 ff., 236 f.
inflectional
214, 215, 217 ff., 222, 223 ff., 228, 229 ff., 236 f.
Passive Projection (PassP)
7, 210, 212, 216
passivization
3 ff., 17, 17 (fn1), 24 ff., 31, 71, 90, 141, 161, 162 f., 174, 211 ff., 218, 226, 313, 354, 359 f., 363 ff., 366 f., 371, 373 f., 378, 382 f., 386 ff., 401, 429
difficulty
363 ff.
long-distance,
see passive (long-distance)
of prepositional complements
172, 178 f., 180 f.
partitive Case
189 f.
perfect
64 ff., 85
auxiliary
71, 75, 76, 79, 85, 92
existential
72
continuous
72 f.
participle
see participle (perfect)
passive progressive
86
periphrastic passive
see passive (periphrastic)
phase (theory)
30 (fn12), 47, 51, 52, 154 (fn7), 157 (fn8), 289, 291, 333, 354, 397 f., 412 ff.
Phase Impenetrability Condition
41, 47
Universal Phase Requirement
397
point of view
314 ff., 314 (fn4), 318, 324
Portuguese
69, 124 (fn48), 426
possessive
79 f., 300 f.
predicational head (Pr)
101, 102 f., 128
preposition
and Case
160, 162, 166, 174, 185 ff., 188, 189, 225
cognate P
see cognate (preposition)
and Late Insertion
196
and passive morphology
201 ff.
by
see by-phrase
prepositional
accusative
160, 162, 187, see also accusative
complementizer
121
complement
175 ff., 178, 180, 183, 185, 188 f., 199, see also prepositional verb
passivization of
see passivization (of prepositional complements)
verb
172 ff., 175 ff., 178 ff., 180 ff., 185, 198 f., see also prepositional complement
PRO
34, 41, 41 (fn21), 43 ff., 46 f., 48, 50 f., 54, 57, 102, 220, 270 (fn9), 271, 312, 331, 400
arbitrary
102, 102 (fn4), 124 (fn51)
pro
125, 126, 131, 132, 189, 190
Procedural Deficit Hypothesis
424
processing
362, 368, 378 f., 383, 385 f., 388, 422 f., 427 f., 429, see also on-line (processing), off-line (processing), see also Good Enough account
progressive
83 f., 86, 86 (fn2)
pseudo-passives
3 f.
purpose
adverbs
see adverbs (purpose)
clause
65, 89, 103, 263, 266
raising
109, 110 (fn22), 120, 126, 161
verb
36, 114
reanalysis
24, 234, 237, 238 f.
recoverability (requirement)
24
reflexive
124, 126, 212, 247, 249, 250 f., 253 ff., 258 ff., 269 f., 273, 275, 277, 278
pronouns
27, 54, 110 (fn21), 227
Naturally Reflexive Verbs
401 f., 403 ff., see also Naturally Disjoint Verbs
reflexive verbs
399, 401 f., 402 ff., 408 (fn11)
restructuring
15 ff., 19 f., 30 ff., 39 ff., 47 f., 49 f.
(non-)reversible passive
see passive ((non-)resversible)
Romance (languages)
68 f., 76, 99 ff., 123, 124 (fn48), 132, 155, 171, 173, 246, see also Catalan, French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Sardinian, Spanish
Romanian
98 ff., 107 ff.
root
194 f., 196, 200, 216, 233 f., 237, 282 f., 287 f., 288 (fn12), 289 f., 290 (fn16), 291
root modal
adverbs
342 ff., 346, 350 f., 350 (fn30), 354
interpretation
342 ff., 350 f.
Sanskrit (Vedic)
210 ff., 212, 213 ff., 217 f., 220 ff., 229 f., 235 ff., 238 f.
Sardinian
104, 106, 127
scrambling
32 f., 39
SE-constructions
122 ff., 126, 130 f.
secondary
object (licensing of)
67, 75, 78
predicate
27, 54, 128
short passive
see passive (short)
small clause
106, 189 ff.
smuggling
6, 157 (fn8), 310, 333, 335, 338, 398
Span Adjacency Hypothesis
234
Spanish
99 f., 101, 171 ff., 178, 184 f., 188, 189, 200, 201 f., 342 f., 344, 346
speaker
point of view
see point of view
speaker’s emotional implication / speaker’s mood
320 ff., 342 ff., 346 ff., 350 f.
specific language impairment
419 f., 422 ff.
Strict Cycle Condition
21, 25, 31, 31 (fn13), 43
structure removal / Remove
21 ff., 25, 26, 30, 32 (fn14), 33, 49
and long distance passive
39 ff.
and restructuring
30
stative
passive
see passive (stative)
predicate/verb
66, 68, 69 f., 72 f., 237, 360, 366, 371, 377, 378, 382 f.
stativization
70, 203 f.
stativizing force
78 f.
subjectization
148, 153, 154 ff., 159 f., 163 f., 166
supine
112 f., 112 (fn25), 116 (fn32), 120 f., 121 (fn43)
Syntactic Complexity (account)
359, 362, 374, 385, 388
synthetic passive
see passive (synthetic)
task/stimuli effects
423, 426
telicity test
254, 259 f., 276
Telugu
246 ff., 250 ff., 255 ff., 264 ff., 270 ff.
Third Construction
16, 37 f., 56
trace deletion
420
hypothesis
398
transformational rule
1, 309, 309 (fn1)
transitive (verb)
25, 75, 81, 114, 124, 125 f., 171, 187, 189, 192, 211, 218, 220
deadjectival
192 f.
light verb
253, 255 f., 257 f., 270, 271, see also unaccusative light verb
locative
192 f., 200
locatum
192 f., 200
truncated passive
see passive (truncated)
unaccusative (verb)
3 f., 17 (fn1), 25, 65, 75 f., 88 ff., 117, 117 (fn36), 118 f., 122 f., 126 f., 154, 171, 223, 247 f., 252 ff., 258, 260, 267 f., 270, 271 f., 275 ff., 323 (fn11), 333 (fn19), 336, 339, 395, 411, 413
light verb
249, 253, 255, 256, 258, 260, 270, 271, 275 f., see also transitive light verb
unergative (verb)
3 f., 118, 121, 122 f., 125, 126 f., 192, 193, 252 f., 253, 254, 258 f., 269, 272, 273, 319 f., 323 (fn11), 334, 336, 339
Uniformity Condition
189 f.
Uniformity of Theta Assignment Hypothesis
6, 310
Universal Phase Requirement
see phase (Universal Phase Requirement)
Universal Freezing Hypothesis
398
unstressed pronoun fronting
34 f., 36, 55 f.
Vedic
see Sanskrit (Vedic)
verbal passive
see passive (verbal)
Visibility Condition
2 f.
voice
7, 90, 211 ff., 216, 284, 287 ff., 297 f., 317, 374, 382
morphology
91, 210 ff., 212 f., 213 f., 234 f., 238, 252, 285 f., 286 f., 298, 300
system
215, 246 ff., 250
VoiceP
6 f., 102, 153, 211, 212, 229, 234, 248, 270, 271, 278, 293, 295, 298, 300, 310, 333, 350, 401
Voice head
7, 153, 210, 211 f., 213, 229, 231, 234, 270, 271, 278, 289 (fn13), 291, 400 f., 412
flavors of
229, see also little v (flavors of)
VP-internal subject hypothesis
395
wa
325 f., 328
want-passive
104 f., 106 (fn10), 138 ff., 141, 142 ff., 149, 152, 154, 159 f., 163
wh-island
185, 190