Abstract
Presenting a cluster of facts regarding extraction, the distribution of adverbs and binding, this paper argues that the passive existential construction is not a matrix passive sentence but an existential construction in which the copula verb be takes a DP complement adjoined by a reduced relative clause, instead of a small clause complement. It accounts for the event interpretation of the construction, a reading that is shared by a matrix passive sentence, by binding of the event‐variable.
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