Titlebook: Diachronic Change in the English Passive; Junichi Toyota Book 2008 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2008 dia

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Passive Diathesis,diathesis (see Section 2.2), i.e. certain constructions with the undergoer-orientation, but without the overt marking of the passive. The passive diathesis tends to be language-specific, unlike the quasipassive, which we will analyse in the following chapter. English has four such constructions, and