Syntactic change in progress in Icelandic: From passive to active

Maling, Joan

doi:10.1075/la.96.10mal

In:Demoting the Agent: Passive, middle and other voice phenomena
Edited by Benjamin Lyngfelt and Torgrim Solstad
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 96] 2006
► pp. 197–223

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From passive to active

Syntactic change in progress in Icelandic

Joan Maling

Published online: 6 December 2006

https://doi.org/10.1075/la.96.10mal

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