passive voice (Q14790)
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Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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English | passive voice |
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Associated with actions performed on the subject by an unspecified agent. [McIntosh 1984,108] Refers to the category of verb forms, typically identifies with a specific morphological marking, that encode the derived diatheses in which the agent role is not linked with a subject noun phrase: Diatheis: D1=(X=AgOb)(Y+SUBabs/nom) [Shibatani 1995,7]
21 August 2021
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