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摘要：本文从生成句法的角度解释英语get-被动句的句法结构;认为它们属于"例外授格"结构;其中的内嵌被动小句补足语的主语为隐性空反身代词。分析表明;get并不是助动词;而是实义动词;语义上须指派一个外论旨角色给句子主语;通常被解读为后面动词词组所描述事件的使因;同时还选择一个小句做补足语;该内嵌小句的主语原为被动动词基础生成的逻辑宾语;是一个隐性反身代词;受句子主语的先行语约束。据此;get分句本身并不是被动句;只是它们包含有作补足语的被动小句。

This paper proposes a generative account of the syntactic structure of get-passives in English and argues that they are best analyzed as ECM constructions with a silent null reflexive subject in the embedded passive small clause complement.As demonstrated,get patterns more like a lexical verb than an auxiliary.It assigns an external theta-role to the sentence subject,which is interpreted as the causer of the event described by the following VP,and selects a small clause as its complement,in which the embedded subject,being base-generated as the underlying object of a passive V,is a silent null reflexive,antecedently-bound by the matrix subject.On this analysis,the get clauses are not themselves passive,but merely contain passive clauses as complements.