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Peer reviewedWhalen, Suzanne – Russian Language Journal, 1976
Proposes an analysis of the impersonal sentence in Russian based on the Fillmorian case grammar model and intended for use in second language instruction. (CHK)
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Deep Structure, Grammar, Language Instruction
PDF pending restorationKarttunen, Kimmo – 1977
Both English and Finnish make use of a category called the passive voice. In most cases these passives correspond to each other, but both are subject to restrictions. This paper attempts to determine how English passives overlap with the semantic area covered by the Finnish passive and what the choices are which face a speaker of Finnish in…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Contrastive Linguistics, Deep Structure, English
