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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Main Author: Gregersen Sune
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2023-01-01
Series:Open Linguistics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2022-0196