The development of the English-type passive in Balinese

The morpheme -a in Balinese is ambiguous because it can serve as a third person enclitic pronoun or a passive voice marker. Various views exist about whether the morpheme can be a pronoun in the presence of a teken agentive phrase. This paper argues that it can and that the construction in which the...

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Main Author: Hiroki Nomoto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universitas Indonesia, Faculty of Humanities 2018-04-01
Series:Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia
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Online Access:https://scholarhub.ui.ac.id/wacana/vol19/iss1/6/