While some traditional grammarians claim that get passive is the alternative colloquial of be passive, some scholars argue that get passive cannot be used to replace be passive since the use of get as a passive auxiliary is very limited. Due to the debatable claims, this research paper investigated whether be passive can replace get passive or not. In finding the answer, the writing was done by a thorough library study about semantic structure and division of each passive’s role. The result shows that get passive cannot replace be passive because of several reasons. From a semantic structure point of view, firstly the stative verbs, such as emotion and thought cannot be addressed with get passive. Secondly, get passive does not go well with...
A transitive event involves two participants: an Agent, the doer of the action, and a Patient, the p...
In English, transitive events can be described in various ways. The main possibilities are active-vo...
The active voice and passive voice are complementary sentence forms that are available when describi...
While some traditional grammarians claim that get passive is the alternative colloquial of be passiv...
This paper aims at expounding on historical development of grammaticalization of the get passive to ...
The present thesis studies the verb get in the function of the passive auxiliary. The theoretical pa...
The characteristics commonly attributed to central get-passives in the relevant literature include t...
In many languages, a passive-like meaning may be obtained through a non-canonical passive constructi...
In many languages, a passive-like meaning may be obtained through a noncanonical passive constructio...
The focus of this thesis is the ergative behavior of the verb get in the passive construction in Eng...
We report evidence from syntactic priming showing that speakers produce more be-passive responses af...
The characteristics commonly attributed to central get-passives in the relevant literature include t...
This study investigates the get-passive in American English, with emphasis on its distribution in d...
In English, transitive events can be described in various ways. The main possibilities are active-vo...
The aim of the thesis is to shed light on the use and development of passive voice in American Engli...
A transitive event involves two participants: an Agent, the doer of the action, and a Patient, the p...
In English, transitive events can be described in various ways. The main possibilities are active-vo...
The active voice and passive voice are complementary sentence forms that are available when describi...
While some traditional grammarians claim that get passive is the alternative colloquial of be passiv...
This paper aims at expounding on historical development of grammaticalization of the get passive to ...
The present thesis studies the verb get in the function of the passive auxiliary. The theoretical pa...
The characteristics commonly attributed to central get-passives in the relevant literature include t...
In many languages, a passive-like meaning may be obtained through a non-canonical passive constructi...
In many languages, a passive-like meaning may be obtained through a noncanonical passive constructio...
The focus of this thesis is the ergative behavior of the verb get in the passive construction in Eng...
We report evidence from syntactic priming showing that speakers produce more be-passive responses af...
The characteristics commonly attributed to central get-passives in the relevant literature include t...
This study investigates the get-passive in American English, with emphasis on its distribution in d...
In English, transitive events can be described in various ways. The main possibilities are active-vo...
The aim of the thesis is to shed light on the use and development of passive voice in American Engli...
A transitive event involves two participants: an Agent, the doer of the action, and a Patient, the p...
In English, transitive events can be described in various ways. The main possibilities are active-vo...
The active voice and passive voice are complementary sentence forms that are available when describi...