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- Title
A Hybrid Structural Approach to the Passive Expletive Construction in English.
- Authors
MIKAMI Suguru
- Abstract
The article focuses on the syntactic structure of the passive expletive construction (PEC) in English, particularly, the expletive construction involving passivized transitive verbs. The main topics covered in the article include previous studies and their analysis of the PEC in English, a proposal for a hybrid structural approach to the PEC, and empirical evidence that supports the proposed structure based on a comparative discussion of English and Swedish.
- Subjects
ENGLISH language; SWEARING (Profanity); ENGLISH grammar; EQUIVALENCE (Linguistics); JAPANESE language; MULTIPURPOSE buildings
- Publication
English Literature Research / Eibungaku Kenkyu, 2023, Issue 64, p121
- ISSN
0387-3439
- Publication type
Article