(Kageyama, 1996 with minor changes) This paper attempts to shed some light on Japanese indirect passives by placing special focus on the unaccusative restriction.
i will make the following two claims: first, the restriction is empirically too strong and it is at most a tendency, not a solid descriptive generalization; second, pragmatic inferences derive the purported cases for the unaccusative restriction, which in turn proves to be illusionary and superfluous.