In English, transitive events can be described in various ways. The main possibilities are
active-voice and passive-voice, which are assumed to have distinct semantic and pragmatic …

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 …

To describe a transitive event, the English language allows a choice of two Voices. The
canonical form is the active-voice, and the alternative is passive-voice, which offers its own …

This paper reports on the results of a research project (Proyectos Complutense PR52/00-
8888) on the use of impersonalization strategies in British and Spanish news reports on …

The existence of syncretisms in the marked coding patterns for variations in the domains of
transitivity and voice presumably indicate the interrelation between constructions involving …

This dissertation makes a discourse-pragmatic and phonological synthesis and analyses of
Yorùbá Oríkì 'praise'and Ewì 'moral'poems. Forty poems—20 moral poems and 20 praise …

The main purpose of this study is to expand the literature on the acquisition of get-passives
since this construction has not been as researched as the be-passive. Particularly, the …

Languages make use of different strategies for the mystification of agency, by
backgrounding of the role of agency and/or obfuscation of the identity of the agent, which …

This paper is concerned with the derivation of the English get-passive such as (1b) below.(1)
a. John was killed in a war. b. John got killed in an accident.(Haegeman 1985: 53) There …

CPL довершеність (англ. completive) CVB дієприслівник (англ. converb) D визначник
(англ. determiner) DAT давальний (англ. dative) DEC твердження (англ. declarative) …