TY - JOUR AU - Lødrup, Helge PY - 2017/11/23 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Reflexive sentences with la ‘let' in Norwegian — active or passive? JF - Bergen Language and Linguistics Studies JA - BeLLS VL - 8 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.15845/bells.v8i1.1328 UR - https://bells.uib.no/index.php/bells/article/view/1328 SP - AB - This article discusses Norwegian sentences such as Helge lar seg ikke stoppe ‘Helge lets REFL not stop’. The second verb raises a difficult question: It does not have passive morphology, but it seems to share  properties with passive verbs. This problem has been discussed for corresponding constructions in e.g. German and French. I focus on the Norwegian data, and argue that it is necessary to consider this kind of sentences to be passive. I also discuss how to implement this view within an LFG conception of complex predicates. ER -