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  • Diachronic change in the English passive[electronic resource] /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 425/.6
    書名/作者: Diachronic change in the English passive/ Junichi Toyota.
    作者: Toyota, Junichi,
    出版者: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2008.
    面頁冊數: xviii, 286 p. : : ill. ;; 23 cm.
    附註: Revision of thesis (Ph.D.)-Lund University, 2003.
    標題: English language - Passive voice.
    標題: English language - Voice.
    標題: Grammar, Comparative and general - Voice.
    標題: English language - Discourse analysis.
    標題: Historical linguistics.
    ISBN: 9780230594654
    ISBN: 0230594654
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references (p. 246-281) and index.
    內容註: Be-passive: Overview and Aspectual Change -- Components of Be-passive and their Historical Change -- Functions of Be-passive -- Be-passive:Functional Changes and Voice Continuum -- Get-passive -- Passive Diathesis -- Quasi-passive.
    摘要、提要註: JUNICHI TOYOTA presents a coherent historical development of the passive voice in English. Unique to this study is the use of continuum in the historical framework, and an examination of various constructions relating to the passive voice, demonstrating an intricate relationship among different constructions and functions over periods of time. Historical changes often leave some evidence ofearlier constructions or functions, which can be identified in terms of gradience. This type of analysis has been neglected, and the voice continuum reveals that there area number of cases of gradience. Furthermore detailed morphosemantic analysis reveals that not all previous work on the origin ofsome constructions, such as the get-passive, may be accurate, and some radical claims have been made concerning such constructions. The author explains complex details schematically, making this an accessible read for researchers and students of language history and language change.
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