The passival and the progressive passive: A case study of layering in the English aspect and voice systems

Studies in Corpus Linguistics

Volumn 13, Issue , 2004, Pages 79-120

  Hundt, Marianne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

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EID: 85105465873     PISSN: 13880373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1075/scl.13.06hun     Document Type: Review

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