出版社：Japan Science and Technology Information Aggregator, Electronic
摘要：This paper presents an analysis of the passive construction in the Minimalist Program. It has been assumed that passives and unaccusatives take the light verb v because there is no accusative Case assignment in either construction. By demonstrating passive examples in which an accusative Case value is assigned, I claim that passive sentences in fact take the transitive light verb v * in the same way as active transitive sentences do. It is also well known that passives can be compatible with a rationale clause while unaccusatives cannot. I propose that v * in the passive functions as the assigner of the accusative Case value as well as the external θ-role.
