A Linguistics Workbook, 4th Edition

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B. Check your answer to question A against the data below. What revisions are
necessary in order to account for the new data? (Review Linguistics, pp. 206-
209 and 213-215.)


6a. The man believes that himself will win. (odd)
b. The man believes that he will win.
7a. The man loves the woman who admires himself. (odd)
b. The man loves the woman who admires him.
8a. That the boy likes herself pleased the girl. (odd)
b. That the boy likes her pleased the girl.
9a. The boy knows that himself told the truth. (odd)
b. The boy knows that he told the truth.
10a. The girl who saw himself knows the man. (odd)
b. The girl who saw him knows the man.

C. An account of the unacceptability of *Himself was hated by him that is based
on the assumption that an active cannot be converted into a passive when the
direct object is a reflexive misses something important. Provide a more general
account for the oddity of the b-sentences in 1-5 and the a-sentences in 6-10
that subsumes the passive example. (Hint: Review exercise 4.21 .)
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