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English is peculiar in that it allows some of the prepositional verbs (multi-words consisting of a verb and a preposition) to be passivized. According to the formal properties of these prepositional verbs that undergo such a pseudo-passivization process, they can be classified into three different types: intransitive, particle, and transitive prepositional verbs. These three types of prepositional verbs undergo pseudo-passive controlled by various grammatical constraints: lexical selection, unergativeness, affectedness, characterization condition, and so forth. This paper examines the formal properties of these three different types and provides a lexicalist approach capturing the possibility of pseudo-passive.