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Between Causative and Passive: Agentivity in the Affactive Construction
- Abstract This brief discussion paper is concerned with the sequence [have NP Vpp] and its distinction into a causative and a passive construction, which hinges on the (non-)agentivity of the subject participant, so that the sequence can be seen as ambiguous in that respect. Instead of analyzing these uses as two different constructions, I propose a unified analysis as instances of the affactive construction. This construction has the functional potential of putting primary focus on secondary participants, so-called afficiary participants. The potential ambiguity with regard to the agentivity of these participants is not an issue in usage, as it is only evoked as part of the conceptual content in the background.
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| Author: | Berit Johannsen |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:gbv:9-opus-76559 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1515/zaa-2021-2025 |
| ISSN: | 0044-2305 |
| ISSN: | 2196-4726 |
| Parent Title (English): | Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik |
| Publisher: | De Gruyter |
| Place of publication: | Berlin/Boston |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first Publication: | 2021/11/09 |
| Release Date: | 2022/12/01 |
| Tag: | causation; construal; semantic roles; voice |
| GND Keyword: | - |
| Volume: | 69 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| First Page: | 321 |
| Last Page: | 328 |
| Faculties: | Philosophische Fakultät / Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell-Keine Bearbeitung |