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Title
Conclusion.
Abstract
Chapter 7 of the book "English Mediopassive Constructions: A Cognitive, Corpus-Based Study of Their Origin, Spread and Current Status" is presented. It highlights the findings of this study about the origin of mediopassive constructions in the English language. It concludes that prototypical mediopassives came from transitive verbs and that the reflexive variants of mediopassive constructions are rare in present day English.