A comparison of the function of voice in biblical hebrew, chinese, and english  

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Xing, Zhiqun ; Myhill, John

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 16 no. 2 (1994), page 253-283.
Fulltext: 16_02_Myhill.pdf (2.23MB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/LAS/16 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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This paper gives a systematic comparison of the functions of voice alternations in three genetically unrelated languages, Biblical Hebrew, Chinese, and English, based upon both data originally written in each of these languages and translated data. It is shown that passive or 'passive-like' function can be divided into a number of discrete functional types, each of which is associated with a certain combination of translation equivalents in the three languages, and each of which can be given a functional profile in terms of factors such as the tense and semantics of the verb and the topicality and humanness of the Agent and the Patient. Such a typology of functions, when applied to more languages, would make it possible to characterize the function of a passive or 'passive-like' construction both objectively and simply. by specifying which of these functional types the construction is used for.

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