Resultative passives in Finnish
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Satu Manninen
Abstract
In this article, I argue that Finnish passive participles (e.g. avattu ‘opened’ and suljettu ‘closed’) can be multiply ambiguous: the “same” morphophonological forms exhibit different patterns of eventivity and agentivity, and are used to form “traditional” non-agreeing passives, agreeing resultative passives, and agreeing sentences that describe “pure” states and behave in most contexts like traditional copula-adjective constructions. I show that in Finnish, Participle Phrases that look similar on the outside can be formed in different ways, and that these Participle Phrases are selected by different superordinate heads, to form either a non-agreeing passive, an agreeing resultative, or a “pure” stative sentence.
Abstract
In this article, I argue that Finnish passive participles (e.g. avattu ‘opened’ and suljettu ‘closed’) can be multiply ambiguous: the “same” morphophonological forms exhibit different patterns of eventivity and agentivity, and are used to form “traditional” non-agreeing passives, agreeing resultative passives, and agreeing sentences that describe “pure” states and behave in most contexts like traditional copula-adjective constructions. I show that in Finnish, Participle Phrases that look similar on the outside can be formed in different ways, and that these Participle Phrases are selected by different superordinate heads, to form either a non-agreeing passive, an agreeing resultative, or a “pure” stative sentence.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction 1
- Reanalysis in Hungarian comparative subclauses 5
- Silent people 33
- Clausal Coordinate Ellipsis (CCE) in Hungarian compared to CCE in Dutch, German, and Estonian 45
- Pseudoclefts in Hungarian 67
- Focus, exhaustivity and the syntax of Wh -interrogatives 97
- A phi-agreement constraint on subject extraction in Finnish 133
- Remarks on a novel LFG approach to spatial particle verb constructions in Hungarian 149
- Resultative passives in Finnish 179
- Discourse new, focused, and given 199
- Harmony that cannot be represented 229
- Index 253
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction 1
- Reanalysis in Hungarian comparative subclauses 5
- Silent people 33
- Clausal Coordinate Ellipsis (CCE) in Hungarian compared to CCE in Dutch, German, and Estonian 45
- Pseudoclefts in Hungarian 67
- Focus, exhaustivity and the syntax of Wh -interrogatives 97
- A phi-agreement constraint on subject extraction in Finnish 133
- Remarks on a novel LFG approach to spatial particle verb constructions in Hungarian 149
- Resultative passives in Finnish 179
- Discourse new, focused, and given 199
- Harmony that cannot be represented 229
- Index 253
