What is a passive? The case of Finnish
Författare
Summary, in English
Several previous authors have argued that Finnish lacks a true passive construction, and relabel the form ''indefinite,''''impersonal'' or ''suppressive'.' In this paper, we first devise a set of criteria for passives cross-linguistically; we then present syntactic and morphological evidence to show that the Finnish construction displays all the key features we would expect from a passive.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2004
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
212-251
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Studia Linguistica
Volym
58
Issue
3
Länkar
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Wiley-Blackwell
Ämne
- General Language Studies and Linguistics
- Specific Languages
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1467-9582