{"id":2291,"date":"2011-02-28T05:02:41","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T10:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=2291"},"modified":"2011-02-28T03:57:31","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T08:57:31","slug":"ling-lunch-33-jim-huang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2011\/02\/28\/ling-lunch-33-jim-huang\/","title":{"rendered":"Ling-Lunch 3\/3 - Jim Huang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Jim Huang (Harvard)<br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: Variation in non-canonical passives<br clear='none'\/>\nTime: Thursday, March 3, 12:30-1:45pm<br clear='none'\/>\nLocation: 32-D461<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Cross-linguistically, there are two major strategies to produce passive sentences.  One<br clear='none'\/>\nproduces passives by an operation that de-transitivizes (rather, unaccusativizes) the main<br clear='none'\/>\nverb,  and the other does so by superimposing an unaccusativized causative verb on a<br clear='none'\/>\nclause that may itself be active.  The first, \u0091canonical\u0092 strategy is exemplified by the<br clear='none'\/>\nEnglish be passive, and the second, \u0091non-canonical\u0092 strategy is exemplified by the<br clear='none'\/>\nMandarin bei passive.  The English get-passive involves a combination of both strategies,<br clear='none'\/>\nwith an unnacusativ(ized) get superimposed on a passivized verb.  My talk will address<br clear='none'\/>\nthree somewhat related aspects of the non-canonical passives. <\/p>\n<p>\nIn Huang (1999) and Huang, Li and Li (2009) the Chinese bei passives are analyzed as<br clear='none'\/>\ninvolving a semi-lexical verb with a thematic subject that is related to the event clause by<br clear='none'\/>\ncontrol or predication.  In view of recent discussions of the control-vs-raising analysis of<br clear='none'\/>\nget-passives and the chameleon character of unaccusatized causatives, I shall show that<br clear='none'\/>\nboth analyses of the non-canonical passives are possible, depending on the scenarios<br clear='none'\/>\ninvolved, up to certain limits, each exhibiting its own characteristic grammatical<br clear='none'\/>\nproperties. <\/p>\n<p>\nI shall then look at three different verbs that have been treated as related to the passive in<br clear='none'\/>\nChinese: bei, rang and gei.  It is shown that the verbs differ in the \u0091bandwidths\u0092 in the<br clear='none'\/>\nspectrum of meaning from the causative to the pure unaccusative, both internally and<br clear='none'\/>\ncross-linguistically. The cross-linguistic variation is particularly true of gei between<br clear='none'\/>\nSouthern and Northern Mandarin.  With respect to Northern Mandarin gei-VP sentences,<br clear='none'\/>\nwhich has been the topic of important treatment by Shen and Sybesma (2010), I argue<br clear='none'\/>\nthat gei is best treated as a raising verb, an unaccusative verb akin to gibt as in German es<br clear='none'\/>\ngibt and give as in English what gives. <\/p>\n<p>Finally, I discuss a new form of non-canonical bei passive that has emerged in Mainland<br clear='none'\/>\nChina, particularly in satirical writings on the web, exemplified by bei zisha, bei xiao-ang,<br clear='none'\/>\nbei siwang, bei l\u00fcyou, bei shizong (literally,  \u0091be suicided, be middle-classed, be died, be<br clear='none'\/>\ntraveled, be disappeared\u0092), etc.  Relying on the lexical decomposition analysis of<br clear='none'\/>\ncausatives as in the previous two points, I propose that these involve the passivization of<br clear='none'\/>\n\u0091mental causative\u0092 sentences.  I liken these to some examples in English, and surmise on<br clear='none'\/>\ntheir parametric differences.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Jim Huang (Harvard) Title: Variation in non-canonical passives Time: Thursday, March 3, 12:30-1:45pm Location: 32-D461 Cross-linguistically, there are two major strategies to produce passive sentences. One produces passives by an operation that de-transitivizes (rather, unaccusativizes) the main verb, and the other does so by superimposing an unaccusativized causative verb on a clause that may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2291"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2296,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291\/revisions\/2296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}