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The paper has investigated the derivation. features and characteristics of passive sentences in JA. After exposing the structure of passivization in JA to the claim of the Minimalist Program. it has been found that a lot of its aspects can be straightforwardly accounted for in the light of feature-checking and merger principles. In case of active transitive sentences. the paper has claimed that JA has a strong NP feature of T which induces overt NP movement of the subject NP out of the VP internal position. that is. the [Spec. VP]. In the passive transforms of transitive sentences the object NP moves to the [Spec. VP]. and then to the [Spec. IP] to have its Nom Case checked off. JA allows the merger between the passive morpheme ‘?it’ and the verb. Thus. the verb raises to T to have its φ features checked by the V- features of T. Similar observations can be noticed in intransitive sentences. the subject NP must be fronted to [Spec. TP] in order to satisfy EPP features. The [+V] feature of T attracts the verb to raise and check the [+ V] feature.
