transitivity of "expire" (fwd)

[Rudolph C Troike]

I forwarded the preceding too soon -- here's the answer for the passive!

        Rudy

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 20:47:42 EST
From: Steven Bird <sb at unagi.cis.upenn.edu>
Reply-To: Steven Bird <sb at ldc.upenn.edu>
To: Gillian Sankoff <gsankoff at mail.earthlink.net>
Cc: penguists at babel.ling.upenn.edu, linglist at babel.ling.upenn.edu
Subject: Re: transitivity of "expire"


Gillian Sankoff wrote:
> Has anyone encountered 'expire' in the passive elsewhere??

Well, here's about 5780 more examples for you:
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=%22been+expired%22

-Steven