Abstract
Several previous authors have argued that Finnish lacks a true passive construction, and relabel the form ''indefinite,''''impersonal'' or ''suppressive'.' In this paper, we first devise a set of criteria for passives cross-linguistically; we then present syntactic and morphological evidence to show that the Finnish construction displays all the key features we would expect from a passive.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 212-251 |
| Number of pages | 40 |
| Journal | Studia Linguistica |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2004 |
Subject classification (UKÄ)
- General Language Studies and Linguistics
- Specific Languages