Passives and Their Meaning.

Langacker, Ronald W.; Munro, Pamela

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Passives and Their Meaning

Langacker, Ronald W.; Munro, Pamela

Language, 51, 4, 789-830, Dec 75

An underlying representation for passive sentences in Mojave and Uto-Aztecan is proposed, and the broader issues that arise in extending the analysis to other languages and incorporating it in linguistic theory as a substantive language universal are explored. (Author/RM)

Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Deep Structure, Language Universals, Linguistic Theory, Nouns, Sentence Structure, Transformational Generative Grammar, Uto Aztecan Languages, Verbs

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