Passive Sentences in English and Portuguese

Name: Passive Sentences in English and Portuguese
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ISBN: 9780878400782

ISBN-10: 0878400788

ISBN-13: 9780878400782

Edition: 1980

Authors: Milton M. Azevedo

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Description:

This study analyzes passive sentences in English and Portuguese which result from a post-semantic transformation applied when a noun, which does not play the semantic role of actor, is chosen as syntactic subject. Choice between a passive and its non-passive or active counterpart reflects differences in the distribution of information in the sentence as regards the relative importance of the latter's constituents for communication. Such distribution is analyzed in terms of Prague school theory, especially that involving the notions of communicative dynamism and the distribution of theme and rheme.

Book details

List price: $59.95
Copyright year: 1980
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Publication date: 1/1/1980
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 132
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



Introduction



The Semantics Of Passives



On the notion of passive



A note on background



Theoretical considerations



Surface function assignment



Literalization



Primary linearization (PL) rules



Secondary linearization (SL) rules



Communicative dynamism and passivization



Passivization and contrastive sentences



Sample derivation of a passive sentence



Passives And Related Sentences



Other passive auxiliaries



Actor indeterminacy



A gente, a turma, o pessoal



Voce



O cara



Eles



The indeterminate se



Contrastive Analysis Of Passive Constructions



Preliminaries



First set of patterns



Second set of patterns



Third set of patterns



Fourth set of patterns


References