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The aim of this paper is to give an account of passive constructions in a semantic-syntactic dependency network. The linguistic material on which the analysis is based will come from English and especially from Dutch. First, we will consider some recent characterizations of passive. Second, we will look at the status of passive agent- or by- phrases and at passive auxiliaries. Mainly on the basis of phenomena in Dutch, it will be concluded that agent-phrase prepositions and auxiliaries are lexical items in their own right. Thereupon, an analysis in our framework will be presented for different passive construction-types.
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Van Langendonck, W. (1983). Passive in a Semantic-Syntactic Dependency Network. In: Tasmowski, L., Willems, D. (eds) Problems in Syntax. Studies in Language. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2727-1_6
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