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Babby, L. H.; Brecht, R. D. – Language, 1975
Two passive forms of verbs are discussed. One is related to its active counterpart transformationally and the other lexically. Voice is defined as the relationship between a verb's subcategorization feature and the surface form of the sentence it occurs in. (SC)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, Morphemes, Morphology (Languages)