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A smuggling approach to the passive in english
Author(s) -
Collins Chris
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
syntax
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.587
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1467-9612
pISSN - 1368-0005
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9612.2005.00076.x
Subject(s) - computer science , movement (music) , linguistics , passive voice , natural language processing , acoustics , physics , philosophy
. 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).