@article{Romero_Ormazabal_2019, title={The formal properties of non paradigmatic ’se’}, volume={8}, url={https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/borealis/article/view/4704}, DOI={10.7557/1.8.1.4704}, abstractNote={<h1 align="justify"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Following Oca (1914), this article argues that passive and impersonal <em>se </em>constructions in Spanish are regular transitive constructions where the pronominal clitic <em>se</em>is the argumental subject. Several arguments (secondary predication, non-argumental predicates, control and obviation, anaphora binding, active morphology or its alignment with overt nominative pronouns, among others)show that (i)bothconstructions are active structures, (ii)despite what agreement facts might suggest, in both the internal argument of the verb is not the subject but the direct object throughout the derivation, (iii) <em>se</em> is the active nominative pronominal subject of the construction. We argue that the alleged ‘special’ properties of passive-<em>se</em> are not construction-specific but follow from the lexical specifications of <em>se</em> agreeing with Tense as a quirky subject.</span></span></h1>}, number={1}, journal={Borealis – An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics}, author={Romero, Juan Romero and Ormazabal, Javier}, year={2019}, month={Jun.}, pages={55–84} }