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Passive
(8,333 words)

A canonical (or full rearranging) passive conveys the same propositional content as its active counterpart, but differs from it in three respects: (i) the passive subject corresponds to an object in the active construction, (ii) the subject of the active construction is either realized as an oblique or deleted in the passive, and (iii) the verb bears overt morphological marking. The…

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Say, Sergey, “Passive”, in: Encyclopedia of Slavic Languages and Linguistics Online, Editor-in-Chief: Marc L. Greenberg, General Editor: Lenore A. Grenoble. Consulted online on 30 September 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2589-6229_ESLO_COM_032105>
First published online: 2020



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