Twitter, 2011. – 1 p.<br/>In writing, sentences are considered to be of active or passive construction (voice) depending on where the emphasis is placed. If the emphasis is placed on the subject, the sentence is considered active, but if emphasis is placed on the object of the action, the sentence i
Passive and Voice
✍ Scribed by Masayoshi Shibatani (Ed.)
- Publisher
- John Benjamins Publishing Company
- Year
- 1988
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 719
- Series
- Typological Studies in Language 16
- Edition
- 1st
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
This volume brings together 18 original papers dealing with voice-related phenomena.The languages dealt with represent both typological and geographic diversity, ranging from accusative-type languages to ergative-type and Philippine-type languages, and from Australia to Africa and Siberia. The studies presented here open up many possibilities for theorizing and offer data inviting formal treatments, but the most important contribution they make is in terms of the insights they offer for a better understanding of the fundamentals of voice phenomena.
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