'The Passive: A Comparative Linguistic Analysis'

 

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1. Introduction (5.08 MB)
2. The Personal Passive (9.51 MB)
3. Impersonal Passives (4.12 MB)
4. The Periphrastic Passive (4.49 MB)
5. The Reflexive Passive (3.00 MB)
6. Exceptions to the Passive (3.77 MB)
7. The Pragmatics of the Passive (6.45 MB)
8. Summary (1.21 MB)
9. Bibliography, Index of Languages, Index of Names and Index of Terms (5.60 MB)