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Passive in Kazym Khanty and the Interaction of Givenness, Topicality and Animacy [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2023 This paper concerns the active/passive voice alternation in Kazym Khanty. According to the existing literature, the use of passive in Khanty is conditioned by information structure.
Nikita Muravyev
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Locative Imperatives in Javanese
Journal of Language and Literature, 2023 Javanese is a member of the Western Austronesian language, a sub-family of the Austronesian language family. Languages in this sub-family are known in linguistic literature as having an exceptional feature in their voice system among the world’s ...
Suhandano Suhandano
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From 3ptl-to passive : incipient, emergent and established passives [PDF]
, 2010 This paper explores, in some detail, the development of third person plural impersonal constructions into passive ones with the aim of determining the conditions most conducive to the emergence of a canonical passive, i.e.
Siewierska, Anna +2 more
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Sovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem, 2020 The article is devoted to the analysis of active and passive voice constructions from the point of view of linguosemiotics. The purpose of this article is to detail the paradigm of active and passive voice constructions in terms of the correlation ...
Tatiana Sergeevna Shmeleva
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ELT Forum: Journal of English Language Teaching, 2017 According to the English teachers of SMAN 1 Kudus especially those who teach the eleventh graders, learning passive voice becomes hard for students when they need to transform the active into passive voice because they are stuck in the formula of passive
Vikit Fadila Rohmah +1 more
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Journal of Cognition, 2018 The active voice and passive voice are complementary sentence forms that are available when describing a transitive event. In English, the latter has two variants: be-passive and get-passive.
Dominic Thompson +2 more
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Familiar Verbs Are Not Always Easier Than Novel Verbs: How German Pre-School Children Comprehend Active and Passive Sentences [PDF]
, 2013 Many studies show a developmental advantage for transitive sentences with familiar verbs over those with novel verbs. It might be that once familiar verbs become entrenched in particular constructions, they would be more difficult to understand (than ...
Tomasello, Michael +11 more
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Nature, 1996 Abstract This chapter attacks the most important villain of readability in business and technical writing: passive voice. If you’ve heard one outcry against bad business and government writing, it’s “Too much passive voice!” That’s a good outcry, because bureaucratic writers significantly over use it. Passive voice isn’t always bad, but
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Voice Syncretism Crosslinguistically: The View from Minimalism
Philosophies, 2022 Voice syncretism is widely attested crosslinguistically. In this paper, we discuss three different types of Voice syncretism, under which the same morpheme participates in different configurations.
Despina Oikonomou, Artemis Alexiadou
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, 2022 Use of passive voice through a current topic as the importance of nature in health. The exercises focus on developing receptive skills such as listening and reading comprehension.
Salgado Benitez, Alvaro Gonzalo
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