Syntactic description of a language with unique patterns of symmetrical voice alternations
The distinction between "Mary kicked the ball" (active voice) and "The ball was kicked by Mary" (passive voice) is an important one for both speakers and linguistic theory. In the active voice the focus is on Mary as the instigator of the kicking. In the passive voice the focus i...
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Animo Repository
2019
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