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Title
Previous studies.
Abstract
Chapter 3 of the book "English Mediopassive Constructions: A Cognitive, Corpus-Based Study of Their Origin, Spread and Current Status" is presented. It surveys earlier studies on mediopassives construction which focused on its prototype effects in semantic roles, syntactic functions and transitivity as well as the significance of pattern meaning. It also examines the linguistic properties of mediopassive construction that different linguistic schools attribute to them.