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Latest revision as of 18:04, 29 March 2008

(Grammatical) voice is an inflectional dimension of verbs which signals different ways of distributing the semantic roles over grammatical relations. The prototypical categories are active voice and passive voice, but a few others have been added more recently.

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References

  • Fox, Barbara & Hopper, Paul (eds.) 1994. Voice: Form and function. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
  • Klaiman, M.H. 1991. Grammatical voice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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