語彙的受動化(1) : 受動化の統語的分析批判

This paper criticizes the traditional syntactic analysis held in generative grammar for decades, in which θ-role and Case are absorbed on the basis of Case and structure. We first look at the technical implementation of the idea in the former framework of the generative grammar, GB, and argue that this analysis does not hold any more in the latest framework, the Minimalist Program. Furthermore, we introduce some examples that may not be identified resorting to Case and structure, to show that the relevance of syntax to passivization is, in fact, more restricted than have been thought, and note that they rather suggest that the semantic aspect of verbs is more relevant to passivization