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SUMMARY:'When can you passivize causatives? A phase-based analysis'  - Mic
 helle Sheehan (Newcastle University)
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CONTACT:Onkar Singh
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, which draws on recent and ongoing joint work wi
 th Sonia Cyrino and Jan Casalicchio\, I consider cross-linguistic variatio
 n in the availability of long passives of causative/perception verbs of th
 e kind in (1-2)\, focusing mainly on English and Romance languages:\n \n(1
 )      Gianni è stato fatto/visto uscire.                      [Italian]\
 n(2)      John was made/seen (*to) leave.\n \nThis is an area of rich vari
 ation across Romance languages\, with French being highly restrictive and 
 Italian highly permissive and European Portuguese\, Brazilian Portuguese\,
  Catalan and Spanish somewhere in between. In all these languages there ar
 e differences depending on the specific matrix verb involved and sensitivi
 ty to the argument structure of the complement. I develop an analysis of t
 his complex variation along the following lines: long passivization is blo
 cked wherever the complement of a causative/perception verb is a phase. Th
 is attributes restrictions on long passivization to the Phase Impenetrabil
 ity Condition\, as I will show. In simple terms\, cases like (1) and (2) a
 re licit because the complement of the causative/perception verb here is a
  TP\, with an EPP feature feeding successive cyclic A-movement. I show tha
 t this approach goes a long way towards explaining the attested patterns o
 f variation across a number of Romance languages whilst also offering stro
 ng indirect support for the existence of phases (domains of syntactic rela
 tions) and for specific versions of phase theory.
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