Choice of passive voice is affected by verb type and animacy  

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Ferreira, Fernanda

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Memory and Language (Full Text) vol. 33 no. 6 (Dec. 1994), page 715-736.
Fulltext: 33_06_Ferreira.pdf (1.53MB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/JML/33 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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In four experiments, subjects were presented with two nouns and a verb and asked to construct a sentence. The primary manipulation was whether the verb was "normal" (agenttheme or experiencer-theme, such as AVOIDED) or theme-experiencer (e.g., CHALLENGED), and the dependent measure was the syntactic form of the sentence (and, secondarily, the time to formulate the sentence). The experiments demonstrated that passives occur more frequently with theme-experiencer verbs than with normal verbs, and passives occur more frequently when the two nouns differ in animacy rather than both being animate. In addition, passives took longer to formulate than actives. The results indicate that speakers attempt to place more prominent thematic roles (agent, experiencer) in the subject position of a sentence. @ 1994 Academic Press, Inc.

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