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An early version of this paper was read at the Winter Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in December, 1982. Later versions were presented at the Second Annual Workshop on Scandinavian Syntax at Biskops-Arnö (Sweden) and at the University of Iceland in June, 1983. We are especially grateful to Anna Sigurðardóttir and Jóhann G. Jóhannsson for countless hours of insightful work as native speaker informants, supported in part by NSF Grant No. BNS80-14730. We thank the following people for comments and suggestions: J. Bresnan, R. Cooper, A. Harris, R. Jackendoff, J. Kornfilt, L. Levin, J. Schindler, C. Watkins, and five anonymous readers.
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Zaenen, A., Maling, J. & Thráinsson, H. Case and grammatical functions: The Icelandic passive. Nat Lang Linguist Theory 3, 441–483 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00133285
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