Non-Canonical Passives -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Non-canonical passives -- 1. Forword -- 2. Introduction -- 3. Defining passives -- 3.1 The standard view -- 3.2 On the syntactic reality of implicit agents -- 4. Canonical vs. non-canonical passives -- 4.1 The case of the English get-passive -- 4.2 Beyond English -- 5. Summary and overview -- References -- Adjectival passives and adjectival participles in English -- 1. Identifying (different types of) adjectival participles -- 2. Theme externalization -- 2.1 Coordination and ATB -- 2.2 Prenominal participles -- 3. Implicit Initiators in adjectival participles -- 3.1 Disjoint reference and coreference -- 3.2 Constraints on by-phrases -- 3.3. Purpose clauses -- 4. Unaccusative-based participles -- 4.1 Unaccusative participles are productive with clear result states -- 4.2 Why transitives are not subject to the result state requirement -- 5. Semantic and syntactic analyses -- 5.1 Transitive resultative participles, externalization and implicit Initiators -- 5.2 Other types of participles -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- The get-passive at the intersection of get and the passive -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Differences between the get-passive and the be-passive -- 2.1 Defining the get-passive -- 2.2 Sociolinguistic differences: Register and style -- 2.3 Semantic differences: Adversative reading and secondary agent -- 2.4 Syntactic differences: Get and the participle -- 3. Corpus-based insights -- 3.1 Corpus information -- 3.2 Revisiting the adversity effect -- 3.3 Revisiting the involved subject (secondary agent reading) -- 3.4 Revisiting the implicit argument -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Three "competing" auxiliaries of a non-canonical passive -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Previous research on the German GET passive -- 3. Auxiliaries of the German GET passive.

3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Empirical analyses of auxiliary selection -- 4. Summary -- References -- Variations in non-canonical passives -- 1. Introduction -- 2. On the chameleonic character of the get and bei passives -- 3. The fine structure of the non-canonical passive -- 4. On lexical choice and the syntax of the so-called 'give-passive' in Mandarin -- 5. Summary and conclusion -- References -- How much bekommen is there in the German bekommen passive? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Varieties of ditransitive verbs -- 3. Experiment -- 3.1 Method -- 3.2 Results -- 3.3 Discussion -- 4. Corpus study -- 5. General discussion -- References -- Haben-statives in German -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Haben-statives in the context of related constructions -- 2.1 Stative vs. perfect construction with haben -- 2.2 Haben-stative vs. bekommen-passive -- 3. The adjectival status of the participle -- 3.1 Some evidence -- 3.2 Rothstein's approach (2007) -- 3.3 Critique of Rothstein's approach -- 4. Towards an analysis of haben-statives -- 4.1 Auxiliary and main verb haben -- 4.2 Constituency and depictives -- 4.3 Prenominal vs. postnominal adjective/participle -- 5. An open question -- 6. Concluding remarks -- References -- Another passive that isn't one -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background (i): Semantic underspecification in sein-passives -- 3. Background (ii): Event kind reference in sein-passives -- 3.1 Data on event-related modification -- 3.2 Data on the discourse status of the event and its participants -- 4. The adjectival affix -- 5. The status of the event in haben-passives -- 5.1 First diagnostic: Event-related modification -- 5.2 Second diagnostic: Discourse-structural inertness of the event and its participants -- 6. The status of the result state in haben-passives -- 7. Concluding remarks -- References -- Passives and near-passives in Balto-Slavic.

1. Introduction -- 2. Accusative survival in the passive and transitive impersonal -- 2.1 Ukrainian -- 2.2 Russian -- 3. The Polish "Impersonal Passive" -- 4. The Lithuanian inferential evidential -- 5. Summary -- References -- How do things get done -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Non-agreeing and agreeing passives in Finnish -- 3. Agreeing olla/tulla + PPP can have passive readings -- 4. Passives with olla/tulla + PPP are not the same as non-agreeing passives -- 5. How are Finnish passives formed? -- 5.1 The structure of Finnish PPPs -- 5.2 Status of olla/tulla in Finnish sentences -- 6. Concluding remarks -- References -- Anticausativizing a causative verb -- 1. Problem -- 2. The passive se faire construction -- 2.1 The subject is not a causer -- 2.2 There is no CAUSE in the higher clause -- 2.3 SE FAIRE requires a missing object within the embedded clause -- 3. SE in result anticausatives -- 4. The simple verb faire in the result anticausative construction -- 5. The analysis of passive se faire -- 5.1 SE in the causative-passive alternation -- 5.2 Relation between anticausatives and reflexives -- 5.3 Deriving the embedded predicate by null operator movement -- 6. Issues and speculations -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- On the syntax-semantics of passives in Persian -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Past participles in X + šodæn -- 3. Nominals in X + šodæn -- 4. Adjectives in X + šodæn -- 5. Impersonal passives -- 6. Concluding remarks -- References -- Two indirect passive constructions in Japanese -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Preliminaries: "direct" vs. "indirect" passives in Japanese -- 3. Two indirect passive constructions -- 3.1 "Adversative" passive -- 3.2 "Benefactive" passive -- 4. Notion of adversity -- 5. Concluding remarks -- References -- Få and its passive complement -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The passive complement -- 3. Causer and Beneficiary subjects.

4. Structures -- 4.1 Beneficiary få-constructions -- 4.2 Causative få -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- The Danish reportive passive as a non-canonical passive -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Properties of the RP -- 3. Analysis of the RP -- 3.1 RPs as constructions -- 3.2 The RP as a grammaticalized evidentiality marker -- 3.3 RPs as passives -- 4. Deriving RPs -- 4.1 RPs as a lexical rule -- 4.2 The lexical rule as constraint interaction -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- (Non-)canonical passives and reflexives -- 1. Introduction: Deponent and 'deponent-like' verbs -- 2. Deponents as (non-)canonical passives: Embick (1997) -- 3. More on the relation between deponents and inherent reflexives: Towards an analysis -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Index.