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Patient-related constraints on get- and be-passive uses in English: Evidence from paraphrasing
Frontiers in Psychology, 2013 In English, transitive events can be described in various ways. The main possibilities are active-voice and passive-voice, which are assumed to have distinct semantic and pragmatic functions.
Dominic eThompson +4 more
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Passive investors, not passive owners
Journal of Financial Economics, 2014 Passive institutional investors are an increasingly important component of U.S. stock ownership. To examine whether and by which mechanisms passive investors influence firms' governance, we exploit variation in ownership by passive mutual funds associated with stock assignments to the Russell 1000 and 2000 indexes.
Appel, Ian R +2 more
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Latin verbs with double accusative and their passivization
Pallas, 2016 The goal of this paper is to re-examine the behaviour of Latin verbs taking double accusative from the perspective of functional-typological research on the so-called “ditransitive constructions”.
Maria Napoli
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Processing unambiguous verbal passives in German [PDF]
, 2018 Passivization played a central role in shaping both linguistic theory and psycholinguistic approaches to sentence processing, language acquisition and impairment.
Alexiadou, Artemis +5 more
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Passivization of Ditransitive Verbs in Persian Based on Symmetric Move Approach [PDF]
̒Ilm-i ZabānThis research examines the passivization of sentences with ditransitive verbs in Persian, based on the notion of symmetric move. The two objects of these sentences can move to the specifier of the tense head in the passive sentence. However, according to
سید مهدی ساداتی نوش آبادی +1 more
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La réduction de la valence verbale : le cas de la passivation en amazighe
Multilinguales, 2015 The purpose of this article is to describe the passive construction as a reducing form of verb valence in amazighe. Thus, we will be allowed to feature the various changes that affect the structure periphrastically, from the active diathesis to the ...
Lhassane Andam
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Comparing the effectiveness of the flipped classroom model and the traditional instruction model: A meta-analysis [PDF]
Nastava i Vaspitanje, 2021 The flipped classroom model has been increasingly implemented in the teaching and learning process at all levels with a view to improving the teaching and learning process, particularly in the present circumstances.
Ralević Lidija, Tomašević Biljana
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A Note on an ECM asymmetry in Spanish
Isogloss, 2017 This paper discusses an asymmetry in Spanish ECM structures whereby NP passivization improves if the embedded clause is a non-infinitive. The facts are accounted for by assuming that structural Case can only be assigned once within a relevant domain (a ...
Lorena Castillo Ros
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Zur Flexibilität von Idiomen im Deutschen
Colloquia Germanica Stetinensia, 2018 This paper discusses the syntactic flexibility of German idioms, with a particular focus on adjectival modification, relative clause formation, wh-movement, and passivization.
Gisbert Fanselow
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Journal of Medical Ethics, 2005 The idea of passive euthanasia has recently been attacked in a particularly clear and explicit way by an “Ethics Task Force” established by the European Association of Palliative Care (EAPC) in February 2001. It claims that the expression “passive euthanasia” is a contradiction in terms and hence that there can be no such thing.
Garrard, E., Wilkinson, Stephen
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