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Abstract
On the basis of Abe's (2016) proposal that in the case of an A‐chain, any member can be the target for pronunciation, I argue that Japanese passives may have the bottom copies of the produced A‐chains pronounced. When the passivized subjects appear to occupy their original θ‐positions, it is standardly claimed that the relevant word order is derived by scrambling other material sentence‐initially. Contrary to this claim, I demonstrate that there are cases, including those of what Miyagawa (1989) calls the causative‐passive construction, where the passivized subjects actually occupy their original θ‐positions. I then provide evidence that those passivized subjects undergo “covert” A‐movement, hence giving support to my bottom copy pronunciation analysis.
根据 Abe(2016)的提议,即在 A 链的情况下,任何成员都可以是发音的目标,我认为日语被动语态可能会对所产生的 A 链的底层副本进行发音。当被动语态化的主语似乎占据了它们原来的θ-位置时,标准的说法是相关的词序是通过扰乱其他材料的句子初始得来的。与这一说法相反,我证明在有些情况下,包括宫川(1989)所说的因果被动结构,被动化的主语实际上占据了它们原来的θ-位置。然后,我提供了证据,证明这些被钝化的主语进行了 "隐蔽的 "A-移动,从而支持了我的底仿发音分析。
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Studia Linguistica is committed to the publication of high quality, original papers and provides an international forum for the discussion of theoretical linguistic research, primarily within the fields of grammar, cognitive semantics and language typology. The principal aim is to open a channel of communication between researchers operating in traditionally diverse fields while continuing to focus on natural language data.