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Is there a word for a pair of verbs that mean the same thing but with subject and object swapped?
In logic, you can say:
(A and B) --> A / 'A and B' implies 'A' (as the 'B' is just discarded)
Computer programmers working from a specification to an implementation, sometimes talk about ...
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Do English passive verbs assign case? (Government and Binding Theory)
I'm trying to think things through regarding case and passive verbs, within the framework of Government and Binding Theory.
As starting point, I'll use this statement/principle (based on what I've ...
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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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What approaches exist to categorizing kinds of passive agent markers and what are their advantages?
For my thesis I would like to conduct a study on the cross-linguistic distribution of agent markers in passives.
In English, this marker is usually realized by the preposition 'by', as in (including a ...
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