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Залог и преходност (върху материали от българския, руския и английския език)
Voice and transitivity (on Bulgarian, Russian and English language material)

Author(s): Boris Naimushin
Subject(s): Language studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Syntax
Published by: Софийски университет »Св. Климент Охридски«

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the controversial issue of relations between voice and transitivity. It is claimed that the traditional approach which maintains the existence of direct and obligatory connection between transitivity and passivizability contradicts the language reality. Proposition is made to replace the traditional binary opposition of transitive/intransitive verbs with a scale of transitivity.

  • Issue Year: 2001
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 5-13
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Bulgarian