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Syntax and Semantics of the Passive Construction in Selected South Asian Languages
… to the study of syntax and semantics of the Passive construction in six South Asian languages (i.e., five Indo-Aryan languages - Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, Kashmiri, Punjabi, and one Dravidian language - Kannada). The major points of focus are as follows: (1) Chapter II describes, compares, and …
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Distributed Agency: An Analysis of Get-Passive in English
… is the ergative behavior of the verb get in the passive construction in English, e.g., 'Mary got paid'. I argue that get in the passive shows the properties of ergative verbs, such as break and open, and that it is therefore best analyzed as an ergative verb in this construction. Ergatives are …
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Distributed Agency: An Analysis of Get-Passive in English
… is the ergative behavior of the verb get in the passive construction in English, e.g., 'Mary got paid'. I argue that get in the passive shows the properties of ergative verbs, such as break and open, and that it is therefore best analyzed as an ergative verb in this construction. Ergatives are …
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The meaning of passive sentences in Japanese
It has often been noted that, in Japanese passive sentences, not only transitive but also intransitive verbs can occur. Since the time linguists first began to compare Japanese with other languages, they have tried to analyse the properties of Japanese passives. The linguists of the last two …
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The meaning of passive sentences in Japanese
It has often been noted that, in Japanese passive sentences, not only transitive but also intransitive verbs can occur. Since the time linguists first began to compare Japanese with other languages, they have tried to analyse the properties of Japanese passives. The linguists of the last two …
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The Representation and Processing of Argument Structure Constructions
… those of Bock and Loebell finding priming of passives with locative containing by. However they also showed that locatives without by such as ""The 747 might land near the airport control tower"" did not prime passives. Thus the preposition seems to be necessary for the priming of passive …
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The effects of processing instruction and re-exposure on interpretation discourse level tasks: the case of Japanese passive forms
… the Japanese linguistics system: namely Japanese passive forms. Processing instruction is a type of focus on form which is framed around the input processing theoretical framework. In order to carry out this investigation two separate experimental studies were conducted. All participants were …
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A corpus-based contrastive study of the passive and related constructions in English and Swedish
The present study investigates the passive and related constructions in English and Swedish. It is a bi-directional study that uses empirical fiction and non-fiction material in the form of original texts and their translations from the English-Swedish Parallel Corpus. Using a contrastive research …
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A Relational Grammar approach to Kera syntax
… on the noun phrase which they precede.</p> <p>"A passive construction is described and its analysis defended within the relational grammar framework. Arguments for this analysis are based on term markings discussed above, plus the relative clause formation strategy. Constructions in which initial …
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A conversation analytic study on teaching moments observed in free conversations between Japanese and American friends
… design of the use of the pronoun “they” and the passive construction may be due to the informal settings of the meetings; i.e., native speakers may be refraining from teaching plainly by taking a presumed role of an American, a native speaker, or a teacher in official teaching contexts such as …