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What is a passive? The case of Finnish

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Summary, in English

Several previous authors have argued that Finnish lacks a true passive construction, and relabel the form ''indefinite,''''impersonal'' or ''suppressive'.' In this paper, we first devise a set of criteria for passives cross-linguistically; we then present syntactic and morphological evidence to show that the Finnish construction displays all the key features we would expect from a passive.

Department/s

Publishing year

2004

Language

English

Pages

212-251

Publication/Series

Studia Linguistica

Volume

58

Issue

3

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Topic

  • General Language Studies and Linguistics
  • Specific Languages

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1467-9582