none 10.1075/la.205.02mci John Benjamins Publishing Company John Benjamins Publishing Company 1757 67855178 1420172 1420043 202507022304000027 10.1075 2025-07-02T17:03:18Z 2014-03-23T11:09:57Z 53 0166-0829 10.1075/la https://benjamins.com/ catalog/la Artemis Alexiadou University of Stuttgart https://ror.org/04vnq7t77 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6790-232X Florian Schäfer University of Stuttgart https://ror.org/04vnq7t77 This volume contains a selection of papers dealing with constructions that have a passive-like interpretation but do not seem to share all the properties with canonical passives. The fifteen chapters of this volume raise important questions concerning the proper characterization of the universal properties of passivization and reflect the current discussion in this area, covering syntactic, semantic, psycho-linguistic and typological aspects of the phenomenon, from different theoretical perspectives and in different language families and backed up in most cases by extensive corpora and experimental studies. 205 3 28 2013 3 8 2013 9789027255884 9789027272270 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam 10.1075/la.205 http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027272270 https://www.jbe-platform.com/deliver/fulltext/9789027272270.pdf https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/la.205/html Andrew McIntyre The article analyses English adjectival participles, arguing that (i) there is a previously unrecognized type of adjectival participle which expresses an in-progress situation; (ii) Themes in adjectival participles are initially merged outside the participle’s projection; (iii) the standard claim that adjectival participles lack implicit Agents is wrong; (iv) unaccusative-based and transitive-based participles are generated by distinct rules, suggesting that the latter are genuinely passive. 3 28 2013 3 8 2013 21 42 10.1075/la.205.02mci https://benjamins.com/catalog/la.205.02mci https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/la.205.02mci/html