Chris Collins
2005.8.1Syntax-A Journal of Theoretical Experimental and Interdisciplinary Research
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A theory of the passive that combines aspects of the principles and parameters analysis and Chomsky's Syntactic Structures analysis and the arguments in the passive are generated in the same positions as they are in the active.
Abstract
. I propose a theory of the passive that combines aspects of the principles and parameters analysis (no specific rules, no downward movement) and Chomsky's (1957) Syntactic Structures analysis (the arguments in the passive are generated in the same positions as they are in the active).
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COLLINS, Chris. A smuggling approach to the passive in english. Syntax-A Journal of Theoretical Experimental and Interdisciplinary Research, 2005, 8: 81–120.