Agent Deletion Passive Voice ( Concept )
http://purl.org/linguistics/gold/AgentDeletionPassiveVoice
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|_ 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.
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| The goat was killed. (by some unspecified person) |
References:
Givon (1988:419) in Shibatani (1988)
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