One step at a time: representational overlap between active voice, be-passive, and get-passive forms in English

The active voice and passive voice are complementary sentence forms that are available when describing a transitive event. In English, the latter has two variants: be-passive and get-passive. Numerous attempts have been made in the literature to represent the syntactic and semantic differences betwe...

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Main Authors: Thompson, Dominic, Ferreira, Fernanda, Scheepers, Christoph
Format: Article
Published: Ubiquity Press 2018
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/52519/