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Passives Cross-linguistically
Language: en
Pages: 454
Authors: Kleanthes K. Grohmann
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021 - Publisher: Empirical Approaches to Lingui

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"The chapters collected in the volume Passives Cross-Linguistically provide analyses of passive constructions across different languages and populations from th
Passives Cross-Linguistically
Language: en
Pages: 454
Authors:
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-02-08 - Publisher: BRILL

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The volume Passives Cross-Linguistically provides analyses of passive constructions across different languages and populations from the interface perspectives b
Studies of Passive Clauses
Language: en
Pages: 290
Authors: Paul Martin Postal
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 1986-01-01 - Publisher: SUNY Press

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In this work, Paul M. Postal supports the universalist theory of language by examining passive clauses. Contrary to a skeptical tradition, Postal argues that pa
Passives and the Loss of Verb Second
Language: en
Pages: 432
Authors:
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015 - Publisher:

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During the fourteenth and fifteenth century, the English language went through two quite remarkable changes: it lost the verb-second (V2) system that is charact
Theoretical Aspects of Passivization in the Framework of Applicative Grammar
Language: en
Pages: 125
Authors: Jean-Pierre Desclés
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 1985-01-01 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

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Passivization is explained by using the formalism of combinatory logic. The agented passive is derived from the agentless as follows: a term denoting an agent i