Diachronic Change in the English Passive (Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change)
Description
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.
Keywords
ENGLISH LANGUAGE_GRAMMARGRAMMAR, COMPARATIVE AND GENERALENGLISH LANGUAGE_DISCOURSE ANALYSISHISTORICAL LINGUISTICS
2008Book
Author(s)Junichi Toyota
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9780230553453
LanguageEnglish
