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Reflexive Passive
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In all Slavic languages except Polish, there are passive constructions marked with the verbal reflexive marker (clitic or affix). Canonical passives do not affect the propositional content of the sentence and are used for the syntactic rearrangement of arguments (demotion or deletion of subject and promotion of the direct object). Reflexive passives are…

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Say, Sergey, “Reflexive Passive”, in: Encyclopedia of Slavic Languages and Linguistics Online, Editor-in-Chief: Marc L. Greenberg, General Editor: Lenore A. Grenoble. Consulted online on 26 September 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2589-6229_ESLO_COM_032106>
First published online: 2020



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