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The passive construction in English

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Kinsuke Hasegawa
Kinsuke Hasegawa*
Affiliation:
University of Tokyo
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Abstract

The English passive construction is here viewed essentially as a special case of the verb complement construction, the so-called passive transformation being decomposed into a few more general elementary operations (transformations). Some theoretical implications are also discussed, and general conditions on transformation as an operation are tentatively proposed.

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Research Article
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Language , Volume 44 , Issue 2-Part1 , June 1968 , pp. 230 - 243
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Copyright © 1968 by Linguistic Society of America

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