Passive and mediopassive in contemporary Spanish

The present study deals with passive and mediopassive constructions in the modern Spanish language. The subjective perspective of Spanish is compared with other languages and the evolution of passive construction is explained. In the theoretical part there are two types of the passive defined and compared from the syntactical and functional points of view. The form and meaning of medium and mediopassive construction are also delimitated. Theoretical consclusions are verified in a special corpus of almost 2000 sentences taken from modern Spanish language. The analysis is dedicated to three main issues. The first part is dedicated to the frequency of appearance of passive constructions, the second part deals with morfological and syntactical analyses of the main parts of sentence and the third part studies the function of this type of constructions. There is also a separate analysis of the frequency of appearance of medium and mediopassive constructions and also of the principal features of their main parts of sentence