The Passive as an Impersonalisation Strategy in Afrikaans and Dutch: A Corpus Investigation

Although a lot of research has been done on the use of pronouns to express impersonal meaning in West Germanic languages, relatively little is known about the use of other possible impersonalization strategies. This article therefore examines the agentless passive as a possible impersonalizing strat...

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Published in:	Dutch crossing Vol. 45; no. 2; pp. 171 - 207
Main Authors:	Breed, Adri, Van Olmen, Daniël
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Routledge 04.05.2021
Subjects:	Agentless passive existential human impersonal pronoun impersonalization passive universal
ISSN:	0309-6564, 1759-7854
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