One Step at a Time: Representational Overlap Between Active Voice, Be-passive, and Get-passive Forms in English.

ABSTRACT: The active voice and passive voice are complementary sentence forms that are available when describing a transitive event. In English, the latter has two variants: be-passive and get-passive. Numerous attempts have been made in the literature to represent the syntactic and semantic differences between these forms, while maintaining their shared features, yet theoretical accounts still differ. At the same time, empirical studies into structural choice have frequently investigated the use of passive voice versus active voice, while the distinction between get- versus be-passive has not received much attention. Here we investigate the degree of similarity between the three transitive variants (be-passive, get-passive, active voice), providing experimental evidence of their mental representati

SUBMITTER: Thompson D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6634362 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature