English prepositional passives in HPSG

Jesse Tseng (1)

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This paper discusses the treatment of English prepositional passives (also known as "pseudopassives") in HPSG. The empirical overview includes a discussion of the familiar (but unformalizable) notion of semantic cohesiveness, as well as new observations about the possibility of intervening elements between V and P. Two formal approaches to the syntactic aspects of the problem are then outlined and compared—one relying on lexical rules, the other taking advantage of HPSG's capacity to express constraints on constructions.

On propose un traitement syntaxique du passif prépositionnel en anglais dans le cadre théorique HPSG.

Mots clés: lexical rules; pseudopassive; adjuncts; passif prépositionnel; prépositions; ajouts; HPSG; règles lexicales; constructions

Domaines: Linguistique

Jesse Tseng. English prepositional passives in HPSG. Proceedings of Formal Grammar 2006, 2006, Malaga, Spain. pp.147-159. ⟨halshs-00106755⟩