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Passive in Halkomelem and Squamish Salish
Academic Work
In the empirical part of this paper it is shown that there is strong evidence that the underlying object in Halkomelem passives does not act like a surface subject. Consequently, we expect object agreement in a passive sentence. Furthermore, preliminary evidence is presented that in Squamish passives the underlying object remains an object as well. If true, this is a . surprising result given that agreement in Squamish passives appears to be subject agreement. In the theoretical part we adopt the principles and parameters view according to which there is no such thing as a construction. Consequently, there is no such thing as a "passive construction". This means that the question as to whether passives in Halkomelem or Squamish are really instances of passives is meaningless. We will show that the language specific properties of passives follow from the properties of the "passive" suffix (-em) in interaction with the fact that there is no Case.
AW.00006
2001
Language and Linguistics
UBC Working Papers in Linguistics Press
International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages, 36,
International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages, 36,
Working Papers
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