Title: Voice mismatches beyond passives : sluicing with active impersonal antecedents
Source document: Linguistica Brunensia. 2020, vol. 68, iss. 2, pp. 65-83
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65-83
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ISSN1803-7410 (print)2336-4440 (online)
Persistent identifier (DOI): https://doi.org/10.5817/LB2020-2-5
Stable URL (handle): https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/143289
Type: Article
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License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International
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Abstract(s)
While ellipsis tolerates various kinds of mismatches, sluicing does not allow for a mismatch in active/passive voice between an ellipsis site and its antecedent. Merchant's (2013) analysis of the impossibility of voice mismatches under sluicing involves syntactic identity and different features of the Voice head. I will show that this analysis incorrectly predicts that voice mismatches should be possible in the passive-like active impersonal constructions in Polish, Irish, and Estonian. However, the syntactic identity approach can be rescued by appealing to a different source for the identity violation, analogous to argument structure mismatches.
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