@inbook{c508312af577499a95d94cf70731afc5,
title = "The Danish Reportive Passive as a Non-Canonical Passive",
abstract = "Danish passive utterance and cognitive verbs allow a construction where the subject of an infinitival complement is raised: Peter siges at v{\ae}re bortrejst ({\textquoteleft}Peter is said to be out of town{\textquoteright}). Contrary to English, these verbs are not ECM-verbs or subject-to-object raising verbs in the active. The subject of the passive can never be construed as an object. These raising passives are termed Reportive Passives since they attribute a proposition to an (unknown) information source. Some analyses treat these passives as special constructions with an idiosyncratic semantics or even as grammaticalized evidentiality markers. I argue that they are fully compositional passives in Danish, but that they are non-canonical inasmuch as they raise an argument of an embedded predicate. I provide an account within the framework of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar and I suggest that such passives are motivated in (Germanic) SVO-languages by a strong subject condition. ",
author = "Bjarne {\O}rsnes",
year = "2013",
language = "English",
isbn = "9789027255884",
series = "Linguistik Aktuell",
publisher = "John Benjamins Publishing Company",
number = "205",
pages = "315--336",
editor = "Artemis Alexiadou and Florian Sch{\"a}fer",
booktitle = "Non-Canonical Passives",
address = "Netherlands",
}