TY - JOUR ID - 56604 TI - Passive Structure in Persian: A Minimalist Approach JO - Language Research JA - JOLR LA - en SN - 1026-2288 AU - Anoushe, Mazdak AD - Assistant Professor of Linguistics Department, Tehran University Y1 - 2015 PY - 2015 VL - 6 IS - 1 SP - 1 EP - 20 KW - Head Movement KW - Verbal Passive KW - Adjectival Passive DO - 10.22059/jolr.2015.56604 N2 - Whether or not there is a verbal passive construction in Persian has been ‎highly controversial. Traditional grammarians and most linguists have ‎argued that there is a structural passive construction in Persian, similar to ‎that observed in English. Within the framework of the Minimalist ‎Program, but more in the spirit of Emonds’s (2006) division of analytic ‎passives into verbal and adjectival, it will be argued that the Persian ‎so-called verbal passive construction is just an instance of adjectival ‎passive, or indeed, unaccusative CPr with a past participle serving as ‎its NV element. In line with what holds for verb movement in simplex ‎and complex predicates, it will be discussed in detail that Modern ‎Persian lacks verbal passive constructions and hence passive ‎projections, and in contrast to the grammatical verb budan ‘to be’ ‎which can be used either as a light verb in complex predicates or as a ‎perfect auxiliary in present/past perfect tenses, the grammatical verb ‎šodan ‘to become’, which is traditionally considered as a passive ‎auxiliary, is indeed a light verb hosted by an NV element. According ‎to this line of analysis, in Persian adjectival passives, the head [A-en] is ‎present in both LF and PF and the past participle is obligatorily ‎interpreted as an adjective. UR - https://jolr.ut.ac.ir/article_56604.html L1 - https://jolr.ut.ac.ir/article_56604_7e7d0fc921030d97760ff73900ae0831.pdf ER -