英语动词性小句的被动缺失

On lack of passiveness in English verbal small clause

本文认为英语动词性小句的句法特征与句子主题的位置和性质有关。当主题由事件论元充当时 ,小句的主语无法获得主题特征也不能经历提升 ;被动化时其名词特征无法核销 ,故生成的被动句不合格。

This paper holds that in passiveness of a verbal small clause, syntactic features are connected with topic positions and nature in the root sentence. When the topic realized as an event argument, the passive form of a VSC becomes unacceptable since its subject NP can neither gain topical features nor be raised to the \ position.