Impersonal passives in icelandic
This paper argues that /celandic impersonal passives have a constructional property that expresses generic events. After having demonstrated their basic characteristics, it is shown that the notion of 'activity' is inadequate for the explanation of why the construction is licensed. The beh...
Main Author: | Toshiko Yamaguchi |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | deu |
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Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani (Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts)
2000-12-01
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Series: | Linguistica |
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Online Access: | https://revije.ff.uni-lj.si/linguistica/article/view/3844 |
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