Patient-related constraints on get- and be-passive uses in English: Evidence from paraphrasing

Patient-related constraints on get- and be-passive uses in English: Evidence from paraphrasing

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. Within the passive, there are two further options, namely be-passive or get-passive. While these two forms a...

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Main Authors: Dominic eThompson, Shuping eLing, Andriy eMyachykov, Fernanda eFerreira, Christoph eScheepers
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
Voice
information structure
Transitivity
paraphrasing
passivization
get-passive
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00848/full

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