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Is there any modern Indo-European languages with synthetic passive form
Which modern IE language(s) have synthetical passive form(s)? Latin did have, but it is not a modern one.
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Assuming that passives need verbal morphology, which languages commonly said to have a passive do not actually count?
Among others, I recently read the passive definition by Martin Haspelmath (from THE GRAMMATICIZATION OF PASSIVE MORPHOLOGY, 1990), which states (page 26/27 of the book, the second/third page of the ...
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