Unintentionally out of control

Taraldsen, Knut Tarald

doi:10.1075/la.158.16tar

In:Argument Structure and Syntactic Relations: A cross-linguistic perspective
Edited by Maia Duguine, Susana Huidobro and Nerea Madariaga
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 158] 2010
► pp. 283–302

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Unintentionally out of control

Knut Tarald Taraldsen | University of Tromsø

Published online: 14 July 2010

https://doi.org/10.1075/la.158.16tar

This article explores the morphosyntax of a type of Norwegian get-passives in which the subject receives an agentive interpretation. These impose an animacy condition on the subject, and yet do not tolerate adverbs like intentionally. I argue that the properties of this construction can be explained within a framework like the one developed in Ramchand (2008).

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