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The origin and originality of passivization in Papiamentu
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2011 This paper is concerned with the diachrony of passivization in Papiamentu. While it is generally held in the literature that passivization in Papiamentu is a non-native 19th century borrowing from Dutch and Spanish, this paper argues that it is in fact ...
Bart Jacobs
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Passivity, complete passivity, and virtual temperatures [PDF]
Physical Review E, 2015 We give a simple and intuitive proof that the only states which are completely passive, i.e., those states from which work cannot be extracted even with infinitely many copies, are Gibbs states at positive temperatures. The proof makes use of the idea of virtual temperatures, i.e., the association of temperatures to pairs of energy levels (transitions).
Skrzypczyk, Paul +2 more
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Lexical Passivization (2) : An Approach Based on Argument Structure<人文・社会科学> [PDF]
, 2012 In our previous paper, we outlined some cases in which traditional syntactic approaches fail to handle the passivization of some kinds of verbs: pseudopassives, double object verbs, Experiencer-object (EO) psych verbs, and symmetric verbs. In this paper,
吉田, 学 +3 more
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Analisi comparativa del doppio accusativo latino
Pallas, 2016 This paper proposes a comparative analysis of some ditransitive verbs in Latin and English which assign accusative case to both internal arguments (theme and recipient). In English, these verbs also display the possibility to realize the recipient as the
Giuliana Giusti, Rossella Iovino
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IFAC-PapersOnLine, 2019 In this paper we introduce a new notion of passivity which we call Krasovskii's passivity and provide a sufficient condition for a system to be Krasovskii's passive. Based on this condition, we investigate classes of port-Hamiltonian and gradient systems which are Krasovskii's passive.
Kosaraju, Krishna C. +2 more
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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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Kurdish EFL Learners’ Awareness of Passivization in English and Kurdish
, 2022 Passivization is the grammatical process in which the structures of the whole sentence, and specifically the verb phrase, change. This process is one of the main syntactic needs in any academic writing. Therefore, any English learner needs to know enough
Ahmed, Salih Ibrahim
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British Journal of Cancer, 1982 Before 1980 the argument that passive smoking was a serious health hazard was rather tenuous. It was claimed that it produced allergic reactions, impaired driving ability, reduced exercise tolerance in patients with cardiorespiratory disease and increased the risk of bronchitis and pneumonia in first-year children.
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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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