Agent Deletion Passive Voice ( Concept )
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Thing
      |_ Abstract
            |_ Linguistic Property
                  |_ Morphosyntactic Property
                        |_ Voice Property
                              |_ Agent Deletion Passive Voice

Definition:

The object of the active retains its old case-marking in the passive, the subject of the active cannot appear in the passive clause, and the passive tends to be semantically active.
[Givon 1988,419]



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Language Code: ute The object of the active in Ute retains its old case-marking in the passive, the subject of the active cannot appear in the passive clause, and the passive tends to be semantically active.
2009-06-04 13:28:06
sivaatu-cipaxá-xa
goat-OBJkill-ANTIP
The goat was killed. (by some unspecified person)

References:
Givon (1988:419) in Shibatani (1988)


PropertiesValuesDefinition
abbreviation Thing     The abbreviated form representing a scientific term, e.g., ACC, 2, CL.
argument Clause     The syntactic entity about which something is predicated.
feature Linguistic Property     The relation between a linguistic unit and a linguistic feature. A feature inheres in its host. NOTE: this relation is distinct from the hasFeature which pertains to data structures.
has Example Thing    
has Page Information Thing    
predicate Clause     The predicate is the relation between the Clause and a portion of a clause, excluding the subject, that expresses something about the subject [Crystal 1980, 280; Hartmann and Stork 1972, 182; Pei and Gaynor 1954, 173; Pike and Pike 1982, 40; Crystal 1985, 241-242].

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