The passive as a lexical rule

Abstract

In this paper I show that object to subject raising approaches as suggested by Pollard (1994) and Müller (1999) are problematic since they cannot account for adjective formation in a satisfying way. The approach by Heinz and Matiasek (1994), which is a formalization of Haider's (1986) ideas, cannot account for modal infinitives and control.

I develop a lexical rule based approach and it will be shown that this approach also extends to tricky cases of remote passive.