Passive be damned: The construction that wouldn't be beaten
This thesis brings together two different lines of research, the nature of passive voice, the nature of readability. Commonly, languages have a range of tools for detransitivisation, topicalisation, and impersonalisation, of which passivisation is one (Givón, 1981). Passives have important roles in...
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University of Canterbury. Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
2009
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10092/2265 |