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Agentive causatives in Romance: accessibility versus passivation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Andrew Radford
Andrew Radford
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University of Oxford
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Modern Romance - with the exception of Rumanian - has a class of causative+ infinitive constructions in which the infinitive subject surfaces as an agentive, as in (1) below, where the agentive phrase is italicized:(1) (a) Il s'est fait haïr par toils. (French) He himself is made hate by all.(b) Si fece odiare da tutti. (Italian) Himself he-made hate by all.(c) Se hizo odiar por todos. (Spanish) Himself he-made hate by all.(d) Fez-se odiar Por todos. (Portuguese) He-made+ himself hate by all.‘He made himself hated by everyone.’

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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , March 1978, pp. 35 - 58
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1978

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