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Voice: Combinatorics
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Voice is part of a network containing (in)transitivity, morphological voice, aspect, tense, grammatical person, voice constructions, and constructions without subject (impersonal constructions), among others. The focus of the article is on the combinations of grammatical marking devices and argument coding and on the combinations of voice constructions with subjectless constructions and agreement. 

Voice and combinatorics

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Lehmann, Volkmar, “Voice: Combinatorics”, in: Encyclopedia of Slavic Languages and Linguistics Online, Editor-in-Chief Marc L. Greenberg. Consulted online on 05 June 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2589-6229_ESLO_COM_034738>
First published online: 2020



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