One Step at a Time: Representational Overlap Between Active Voice, Be-passive, and Get-passive Forms in English
The active voice and passive voice are complementary sentence forms that are available when describing a transitive event. In English, the latter has two variants: be-passive and get-passive. Numerous attempts have been made in the literature to represent the syntactic and semantic differences betwe...
Main Authors: | Dominic Thompson, Fernanda Ferreira, Christoph Scheepers |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Ubiquity Press
2018-06-01
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Series: | Journal of Cognition |
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Online Access: | https://www.journalofcognition.org/articles/36 |
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