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Download full textZhang, Jiuwu; Wen, Xiaohong – 1989
Analysis of Chinese passive constructions indicates two types. The first is a verbal or syntactic passive because it is derived through a transformational rule. The second is a lexical passive that has certain properties in common with the predicate adjectives in both Chinese and English and is derived through the semantic function and in lexical…
Descriptors: Chinese, Classification, Contrastive Linguistics, English
