@article{oai:nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp:00028090, author = {Wakayama, Masayuki}, journal = {IVY}, month = {Nov}, note = {This paper is a descriptive study of Japanese lexical passivization. First, it will be shown that there are two types of passivization in Japanese. One is traditionally known as syntactic passivization. The other is passivization in which only lexical operations are required. I will point out that this phenomenon, also observed in Korean, is analogous to the binyan system in Hebrew, which plays an important role in voice and valency alternation. Therefore, lexical passivization is not peculiar to Japanese grammar, but it falls on the system of Universal Grammar. Next, I will discuss similarities between lexical passive verbs and psych-verbs and propose that they belong to middle verbs in the sense of Hosoe (1928) and Babcock (1970).}, pages = {1--19}, title = {Lexical Operations on Passivization}, volume = {41}, year = {2008} }