The Functional Effect of Agent Retention in English Passives: An Examination of the Informativeness Condition
Different treatments of passives in English have concentrated on providing and account of this particularly interesting construction from diverse frames of reference. There are formal (e.g. Quirk et al., 1979), semantic (e.g. Keenan, 1985), and functional analyses (e.g. Riddle & Sheintuch, 1983)...
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Asociación Colombiana de Profesores de Ingles,
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