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This paper holds that Chinese passive with a retained object is not derived as a result of possessor raising, but from the passivization of the rob-type double object construction (DOC) with the two objects having the possessive semantic relationship. This rob-type DOC can be regarded as a DOC with characteristics of a low applicative, where the head Appl introduces the indirect object as its specifier and the direct object as its complement. The passivization of the rob-type DOC leads to only the movement of its direct object, and thus produces the so-called passive with a retained object. This analysis can provide solutions to the problems left behind by the Possessor Raising Analysis.
The current work is partially supported by the Research Committee of University of Macau (Standard Research Grant MYRG172(Y2-L3)-FSH11-XJ), China National Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Research Grant for Young Scholars (12CYY051). We also thank the two reviewers and professor Jie Xu for their valuable comments and suggestions, and also Brent Pack for helping revise the paper.
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Villaflor, J.W., Li, Y. (2014). A Reanalysis of Chinese Passive with a Retained Object. In: Su, X., He, T. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8922. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14331-6_10
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