The Passive as a Style Marker in Early Modern English: Evidence from the Helsinki Corpus
This paper offers a description of the stylistic dimension of the passive in the Early Modern English period as represented in the computerised Helsinki Corpus of English Texts. The first section examines the stylistic factors which determine the choice of a passive over an active clause. In the se...
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| Language: | English |
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Universidad de Zaragoza
1998-12-01
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| Series: | Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies |
| Online Access: | https://papiro.unizar.es/ojs/index.php/misc/article/view/11018 |