This paper concerns the argument structure analysis of
raising-to-subject with passive predicates in Swedish and other
Germanic languages. Support is given for the analysis in which the
raising-to-subject construction constitutes a regular passive, the
passive counterpart of active raising-to-object. The fact that there
does not seem to be an active counterpart for certain predicates, such
as the predicate say, as well as the fact that raising-to-subject does
not seem to be possible with the periphrastic passive in Swedish is
attributed to certain semantic restrictions on the raising-to-object
construction and the periphrastic passive construction, respectively.
An Argument Structure Analysis of Adjectival Passive Participles