Diachronic Change in the English Passive /

In this coherent historical development of the passive voice in English, the main argument deals not only with the passive per se, but also with its related constructions, which can play vital parts in identifying both functional and structural motivations for creating the passive.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Toyota, Junichi (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Language History nad Language Change.
Subjects:	Linguistics. Comparative Linguistics. Grammar. Historical Linguistics. Sociolinguistics. Comparative linguistics. Grammar, Comparative and general. Historical linguistics. Language and languages > Grammars. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book