Grammar from the human perspective : case, space and person in Finnish / edited by Marja-Liisa Helasvuo, Lyle Campbell.
Marja-Liisa Helasvuo's paper discusses passive constructions in Finnish. Based on a large database of spoken Finnish, she argues that contrary to the received view in Finnish linguistics, there are actually two types of passive in Finnish, namely the so-called simple passive (formed by the verb...
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