The Syntax of Voice in Russian.

Babby, L. H.; Brecht, R. D.

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The Syntax of Voice in Russian

Babby, L. H.; Brecht, R. D.

Language, 51, 2, 342-367, Jun 75

Two passive forms of verbs are discussed. One is related to its active counterpart transformationally and the other lexically. Voice is defined as the relationship between a verb's subcategorization feature and the surface form of the sentence it occurs in. (SC)

Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, Morphemes, Morphology (Languages), Russian, Sentence Structure, Syntax, Transformational Generative Grammar, Verbs

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