By Benjamin Lyngfelt, Torgrim Solstad
Passives, middles, and different voice phenomena are concerns on the middle of recent linguistic examine. This quantity brings jointly diverse views on voice diverse theoretical viewpoints, varied languages, and other kinds of voice phenomena. The 11 articles each one make a necessary contribution to the continuing dialogue, supplying new info, new analyses, and bringing new mild to long-standing matters. together, they current a multi-faceted and but coherent photograph of the themes handy.
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N) The Danish and Norwegian distributional patterns shown in Tables 4 and 5 fit very well with the descriptions we find in grammars from the beginning of the 20th century such as Mikkelsen (1911) and Western (1921) according to which the bli-passive is the dominant form in the past and perfect tenses. . The nature of the subject In the previous section we saw that of the 562 Swedish passive clauses examined by Laanemets, only seven, about 1%, were bli-passives. In this section we will try to establish when bli-passives are used in Swedish.
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