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For questions about the passive, a grammatical voice.

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Is there any modern Indo-European languages with synthetic passive form

Punjabi and Sindhi both have synthetic passive conjugations for verbs, formed by infixing and shift of stress from the stem to the infix. … کھاوݨ (ˈkhā.vaṇ) gerund, “to eat” ਖਵੀਜਣ کھویجݨ (khaˈvī.jaṇ) gerund, “to be eaten” ਖਾਂਦਾ کھاندا (ˈkhān.dā) imperfect participle, “eats” ਖਵੀਂਦਾ کھویندا (khaˈvīn.dā) imperfect participle, “is eaten” The passive
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Can ergative languages have a passive construction?

Punjabi and Sindhi both have ergative constructions and passive conjugations for verbs. It is not possible to use an ergative construction with a passive verb though. …
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Are there languages with free argument order that lack a passive voice? If not, why not?

This is formally similar to a passive construction but not passive in meaning. Due to the agreement rules, we can reorder the arguments in the above sentences without changing their meaning. … Why does Punjabi retain passive verb forms while Hindustani does not? …
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