It is generally claimed that three of the seven morphophonemic verbal patterns in Modern Hebrew have the function of expressing passive voice. This analysis, however, involves several problems, notably the fact that constructions with these patterns in most cases resemble impersonals, rather than ...
AgentlessPassives and DiagrammingthePassive EdMcCorduck English402--Grammar SUNYCortland http://mccorduck.cortland.edu “agentless”passives–sentencesinthepassivevoice thatdon’thaveabyphrase,henceinwhichthesubjectof theactive-voiceequivalent(i.e.,the“agent”)isnotgiven slide2:definitionofanagentlesspa...
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Nominalization and agentless passives have attracted sustained attention in critical linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), where, it is argued... Lingle 被引量: 0发表: 2018年 THE EFFECT OF INFORMATION STRUCTURE ON THE INDONESIAN DI- PASSIVE Passives are standardly defined as an operati...
In an examination of agentless (semi-passive) constructions with transitive verbs in Dominican French Creole (DFC), it is shown that the general approach of embedding the passive predicate to semantic stative BE and external source of by-agent phrases (Langacker and Munro 1975; Hoard 1979) ...
The concept 'agentless' refers to the use of impersonal constructions—passive voice, nominalizations, zero-person construction, and iterative verbs— which all imply having no control over the described actions. 'Agentless talk' is viewed in this paper as a strategy to escape full personal ...