Two indirect passive constructions in Japanese
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Masanori Deguchi
Abstract
In this study, I examine two indirect passive constructions in Japanese. Indirect passives are also known as “affective” passives since a participant in the encoded event is somehow affected. The two indirect passives discussed here crucially differ in the way the participant is affected. It is generally affected negatively with the rare-passive (hence, the “adversative” passive). In contrast, it is always affected positively with the morau-passive (hence, the “benefactive” passive). On the basis of this difference, I scrutinize the very notion of adversity and examine how the sense of adversity comes about for the rare-passive. I then discuss why adversity never arises for the morau-passive, and a benefactive reading instead obtains.
Abstract
In this study, I examine two indirect passive constructions in Japanese. Indirect passives are also known as “affective” passives since a participant in the encoded event is somehow affected. The two indirect passives discussed here crucially differ in the way the participant is affected. It is generally affected negatively with the rare-passive (hence, the “adversative” passive). In contrast, it is always affected positively with the morau-passive (hence, the “benefactive” passive). On the basis of this difference, I scrutinize the very notion of adversity and examine how the sense of adversity comes about for the rare-passive. I then discuss why adversity never arises for the morau-passive, and a benefactive reading instead obtains.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Non-canonical passives 1
- Adjectival passives and adjectival participles in English 21
- The get -passive at the intersection of get and the passive 43
- Three “competing” auxiliaries of a non-canonical passive 63
- Variations in non-canonical passives 95
- How much bekommen is there in the German bekommen passive? 115
- Haben -statives in German 141
- Another passive that isn’t one 163
- Passives and near-passives in Balto-Slavic 185
- How do things get done 213
- Anticausativizing a causative verb 235
- On the syntax-semantics of passives in Persian 261
- Two indirect passive constructions in Japanese 281
- Få and its passive complement 297
- The Danish reportive passive as a non-canonical passive 315
- (Non-)canonical passives and reflexives 337
- Index 359
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Non-canonical passives 1
- Adjectival passives and adjectival participles in English 21
- The get -passive at the intersection of get and the passive 43
- Three “competing” auxiliaries of a non-canonical passive 63
- Variations in non-canonical passives 95
- How much bekommen is there in the German bekommen passive? 115
- Haben -statives in German 141
- Another passive that isn’t one 163
- Passives and near-passives in Balto-Slavic 185
- How do things get done 213
- Anticausativizing a causative verb 235
- On the syntax-semantics of passives in Persian 261
- Two indirect passive constructions in Japanese 281
- Få and its passive complement 297
- The Danish reportive passive as a non-canonical passive 315
- (Non-)canonical passives and reflexives 337
- Index 359
