Restrictions on past-tense passives in Late Modern Danish
This article investigates a case of lexical restrictions on a voice construction, specifically Danish past-tense passives. Present-Day Danish has both a periphrastic and an inflectional passive construction, but in the past tense, most ablaut (strong) verbs cannot form the inflectional passive (e.g....
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Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2023-01-01
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Series: | Open Linguistics |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2022-0196 |