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This paper highlights similarities between two classes of arguably non-canonical passives, namely 'deponent' verbs familiar from Latin, and 'inherent reflexive' verbs in Germanic and Romance, arguing that the latter are the counterparts of the former - notably, both classes of verbs are denominal/deadjectival. Building on the idea that overt morphological voice markings reflect feature distinctions associated with v0 in the syntax, I argue that the special 'unaccusative' morphology (i.e. reflexive or non-active) doesn't just bear on the absence of an external argument in the syntax, but

Grammar, Comparative and general --- Causal relations (Linguistics) --- Generative grammar. --- Grammar, Generative --- Grammar, Transformational --- Grammar, Transformational generative --- Transformational generative grammar --- Transformational grammar --- Psycholinguistics --- Causality relations (Linguistics) --- Causative relations (Linguistics) --- Relations, Causal (Linguistics) --- Causative (Linguistics) --- Functional sentence perspective (Grammar) --- Predicate and subject (Grammar) --- Subject and predicate (Grammar) --- Theme and rheme --- Topic and comment (Grammar) --- Focus (Linguistics) --- Passive voice --- Voice, Passive --- Passive voice. --- Topic and comment. --- Derivation --- Subject and predicate --- Syntax --- Voice --- Causal relations (Linguistics). --- Generative Grammatik. --- Passiv. --- Linguistics --- Philology