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Complex Passives, Reanalysis, and Word Formation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 December 2008

Kirsti Koch Christensen
Kirsti Koch Christensen
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Department of Nordic Languages and Literature, University of Oslo, 0315 Blindern, Oslo 3, Norway.
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Abstract

This paper deals with the syntax of the so-called ‘complex passive’ and, more generally, with investigating the range, effects, and interaction of certain reanalysis processes that have been claimed to be operative in this and other syntactic constructions.

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Nordic Journal of Linguistics , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , June 1986 , pp. 135 - 162
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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