Diachronic Change in the English Passive (Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change)

by Dr Junichi Toyota (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2008

  $125.17

  In this coherent historical development of the passive voice in English, the main argument deals not only with the passive per se, but also with its related constructions, which can play vital parts in identifying both functional and structural motivations for creating the passive.