Exceptions to the Norwegian Passive

Exceptions to the Norwegian passive: Unaccusativity, aspect and thematic roles
Type	in-book
Author(s)	Helge Lødrup
Journal	Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift
Pages	37-54
Volume	1, 2000
Country	Norway
Annotator	Isak Askheim
Corpus Link	Exceptions to the Norwegian Passive
Language	Norwegian Bokmål

By Isak Askheim

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Keyterms

morphological passive, periphrastic passive, unaccusative verbs, aspect, thematic role hierarchy

Original Interlinear Glossed Text

(1) The morphological passive with the -s-suffix: Kaken stekes i ovnen. The-cake bake-PASSIVE in the-oven	(2) The periphrastic passive with the auxiliary bli 'become' and the passive participle: Kaken blir stekt i ovnen The-cake becomes baked in the-oven
(6) *Dette redskapet blir behøvd This tool becomes needed	(16) Salaten ble smakt på The salad became tasted on
(17) Hvitløken smakes ikke i det hele tatt The garlic taste-PASSIVE not at all	(18) *Hvitløken blir ikke smakt i det hele tatt The garlic becomes not tasted at all
(24) Kaken blir stekt i ovnen The-cake becomes baked in the-oven 'The cake is being baked in the oven'	(25) Kaken er stekt i ovnen The-cake is baked in the-oven 'The cake has been baked in the oven'
(26) Kongen blir elsket av alle The-king becomes loved by everybody 'The king is loved by everybody'	(27) Kongen er elsket av alle The-king is loved by everybody 'The king is loved by everybody'