Academic literature on the topic 'Pseudopassiv'

The effect of varying VC content on the corrosion behavior of WC-10 wt% Co hardmetals in sodium chloride (NaCl) and synthetic mine water (SMW) solutions has been investigated using anodic polarization scans and surface analytical methods. It is shown that the polarization behavior is active-pseudopassive in NaCl and active in SMW regardless of the VC content, while the corrosion resistance is poorer and independent of VC content in NaCl but better at high VC contents in SMW. The corrosion behavior of samples is explained using the effect of VC on the chemical composition of the binder.

The crosslinguistic distribution of preposition stranding by A movement in pseudopassive constructions matches that of a marked A' phenomenon, namely extraction from Bare Present Participial Adjuncts. Moreover, both constructions show sensitivity to external factors of a sort that reanalysis-based theories of P-stranding are designed to capture, but which is not immediately predicted by P-stranding theories based on parametrisation of PP’s status as a bounding node or phase. However, an expanded version of Abels’ (2003) phase-based account of P-stranding, according to which the sensitivity of P-stranding under A- and A'-movement to PP-external factors is due to general constraints on movement and passivisation, captures the relevant data without resorting to a reanalysis operation.

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 2008.
"September 2008."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 55-57).
This thesis introduces a special form of pseudopassive that differs from previously discussed forms in that it includes a direct object adjacent to the verb. It is shown that the direct object position in this construction is restricted to NPs that lack D(eterminer)-level projections. As a result, the direct object can only receive a non-specific interpretation, resists certain types of modification, extraction, and scope interactions. Due to its lack of D-level, I argue, the direct object also cannot check the EPP feature on T and therefore cannot raise to subject of the passive sentence. T, then, must probe instead into the PP, agreeing with the PP-object and raising it to its specifier. I posit that the syntactic machinery which allows pseudopassivization is the availability in English of selecting prepositions from the lexicon that are unvalued for tense - as such, these prepositions must depend on the c-commanding verb to value their tense features and in turn assign case to their objects. When the verb itself is unvalued for tense, the PP's nominal object must raise to a higher project to value its tense features (i.e., to be case-licensed); this is the situation in passives, namely in pseudopassives. The solution I argue for draws heavily from the recent research and framework of Pesetsky & Torrego (2004, 2006, 2007). On the semantic side, the direct objects in these pseudopassives are compared to similarly behaving non-specific nominals in Hindi, Chol, Tongan, Inuktitut, Nez Perce, among others (Dayal 2003, Coon to appear, Ball 2005, Wharram 2003, Deal 2007). The researchers who identified such nominals in these languages have referred to them as pseudo-incorporated, and claim that pseudo-incorporated NPs are interpreted not as individuals (type e) but as properties (type ). Following their lead, I have coined the term pseudo-incorporated pseudopassive (PIPP) for the special form of pseudopassive that includes these reduced, non-specific direct objects. In order to semantically combine the passive predicate with these non-specific propertytype arguments, I adopt Wharram (2003) and Deal's (2007) proposal for a morpheme, ANTIP, that adjoins to the verb root and yields a property-taking function in place of an individual-taking one.
by Jillian Louise Mills.
S.M.

I denna uppsatsen undersöktes sambandet mellan passivkonsruktioner och predikativ kongruens i inlärningen av svenska som andraspråk. Predikativ kongruens kan processas på nivå 4 enligt Processbarhetsteorin (Pienemann, 1998), och forskning om andra språk har föreslagit att passiver skulle processas på samma nivå. Då detta är något som aldrig tidigare har undersökts på svenska som andraspråk togs det i denna uppsatsen anspråk att undersöka om det även gäller svenskan som andraspråk. Med hjälp av eliciteringstester undersöktes om 11 inlärare kunde producera strukturer av predikativ kongruens och passiver. Undersökningen bekräftar de internationella studierna och visar att inläraren ska uppnå minst nivå 4 för att kunna producera strukturer av passiver i svenska som andraspråk.

Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Letras, Departamento de Linguística, Português e Línguas Classicas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Linguística, 2007.
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Esta dissertação busca contribuir com os estudos sociolingüísticos na descrição dos usos lingüísticos que fazem parte da língua eminentemente brasileira, com base em dados empíricos e reais. Dentre tais usos, ela estuda as construções chamadas pela tradição gramatical de “passivas sintéticas”. O corpus para a realização da pesquisa é composto de textos escritos mais monitorados do gênero argumentativo escritos por professores de português do Distrito Federal e Goiás e estudantes de Letras da Universidade de Brasília. O presente estudo faz um breve percurso diacrônico de evolução dos usos do pronome SE até chegar ao seu uso contemporâneo como – essa é a postura aqui assumida – sujeito da oração, o que tem por conseqüência a não-concordância entre o verbo e o sintagma nominal tradicionalmente classificado como sujeito da oração e que, na verdade, é identificado como objeto da oração por parte dos falantes da língua. O uso indeterminador do pronome SE é uma variante mais identificada com escolarização, sendo rara a concordância entre verbo e SN, na fala, e, como veremos, até em textos escritos monitorados, inclusive em construções com verbos transitivos diretos, fruto da pressão exercida pelo conhecimento da norma-padrão. Além disso, esta pesquisa também contempla fenômenos relacionados ao uso do pronome SE como pronome indefinido de referência indeterminada: o apagamento do pronome em orações finitas e a sua inserção em orações infinitas, além do enfraquecimento da concordância do paradigma flexional do português brasileiro, sua orientação para o tópico e preenchimento cada vez mais obrigatório da posição de sujeito. Os resultados desta pesquisa constituem-se em evidências empíricas para a inclusão do SE sujeito dentre as estratégias que estão à disposição dos falantes quando estes precisarem expressar a indeterminação do agente. _______________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT
This dissertation seeks to contribute with the sociolinguistic studies in the description of the linguistic uses that make part of eminently Brazilian language, based on empirical and real data. Among such uses, it studies the construction called “synthetic passives” by traditional scholars. The corpus for the realization of the research is composed by written texts more monitorated of the argumentative gender written by Portuguese teachers, from Distrito Federal and Goiás (Brazil) and Letters students from University of Brasília. The present study makes a brief diachronic evolution course of the pronoun SE uses till arriving to its modern use such as – this is the point here defended – the clause subject, that has by consequence the non-agreement between the verb and the nominal phrase (NP), traditionally classified as the subject clause that, really, is identified as the clause object by Brazilian Portuguese native speakers. The unindetermining use of the pronoun SE is a variant more identified with escolarization, being the rare agreement between the verb and NP, even in constructions with direct transitive verbs, fruit of the pressure by the knowledge of the main norm. Besides this, this research also contemplates phenomena linked to use of the pronoun SE as indefinite pronoun of indeterminated reference: the erasement of the pronoun in finite clauses and its insertion in nonfinite ones besides of the weakness of the agreement of Brazilian Portuguese flexible paradigm, its orientation to the topic and fulfillment more and more obligatory of the position of the subject. The results of this research constitute in empiric evidences to the inclusion of the SE subject among the strategics that are at the disposal of the speakers when they need to express the indetermination of the agent.