A corpus-based analysis of the Swedish passive alternation

Cuypere, Ludovic De; Baten, Kristof; Rawoens, Gudrun

doi:10.1017/s0332586514000183

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“…The presence of modals does not appear to be as strong a licensing factor for Prep- s -passives as for s -passives in general in Swedish, see De Cuypere, Baten & Rawoens (2014:214f. ).…”

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Prepositional passives in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish: A corpus study

Engdahl¹,

Laanemets²

2015

Nord J Linguist

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There are conflicting reports in the literature concerning whether the Scandinavian languages use prepositional passives as in English. Maling & Zaenen (1985) showed that Icelandic does not have the construction; instead the Icelandic data should be analyzed as topicalization of the complement of a preposition in impersonal passives. They suggested that the same account would be appropriate for Danish and Swedish, whereas Norwegian is reported to have a rather productive prepositional passive (Lødrup 1991). In order to find out to what extent and in what ways prepositional passives are actually used, we carried out a series of investigations in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish contemporary text corpora, analyzing over 3600 potential prepositional passives, with a balance of periphrastic and morphological passive forms. We have found that prepositional passives are indeed used in all three languages, but rather infrequently, ranging from 3.4 per million words (3.4/mw) in Swedish, 5/mw in Danish to 16/mw in Norwegian. The majority of the prepositional passives are periphrastic bli(ve)-passives. The passive subject is typically animate, a person or an animal, who is psychologically affected by the action, or the lack of action, expressed by the participle. The notion of affectedness that is relevant for these languages thus differs from what has been described for English. Prepositional s-passives are found in coordinated structures and in infinitival complements of modal verbs, a context known to favour s-passive.

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“…The presence of modals does not appear to be as strong a licensing factor for Prep- s -passives as for s -passives in general in Swedish, see De Cuypere, Baten & Rawoens (2014:214f. ).…”

Section: Notesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Prepositional passives in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish: A corpus study

Engdahl¹,

Laanemets²

2015

Nord J Linguist

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“…Future directions include examining animacy as an explanatory variable, which affects passivization in other languages (De Cuypere et al, 2014;Sasaki and Yamazaki, 2006); however, animacy poses difficulties for automated methods as noted by Roland et al (2007). Prescriptivism is another potential explanatory factor for the changing rate of passivization (Anderwald, 2012).…”

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Modeling the Decline in English Passivization

Hou¹,

Smith²

2018

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“…Logistic regression has become very common among corpus-linguistic research when testing the effect of multiple independent variable(s) on the dependent variable, especially because of its flexibility and the relatively easy interpretation of the results (see e.g. Bresnan et al 2007, De Cuypere, Baten & Rawoens 2014). In the case of multiple independent variables, the model also takes their interactions into consideration (Gries 2015:727).…”

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From zero to ‘you’ and back: A mixed methods study comparing the use of two open personal constructions in Finnish

Varjo¹,

Suomalainen²

2018

Nord J Linguist

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This article focuses on two Finnish personal constructions which can be used to create indexically open reference, i.e. they can be used to refer to generalized or shared human experiences. These two constructions are the zero-person construction and the open 2nd person singular construction. Using Finnish everyday conversational data, we (i) statistically analyze the distributional semantico-grammatical differences in the use of the zero-person and open 2nd person singular constructions, and (ii) examine these differences on a clausal and sequential level in interactional contexts. In our analysis, we integrate quantitative and qualitative methods. Our aim is to show that by mixing methods it is possible to both reveal the recurring semantico-grammatical patterns of the constructions across a large corpus and analyze how these patterns are shaped by the ongoing interaction.

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A corpus-based analysis of the Swedish passive alternation

Cited by 6 publications

References 13 publications

Prepositional passives in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish: A corpus study

Prepositional passives in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish: A corpus study

Modeling the Decline in English Passivization

From zero to ‘you’ and back: A mixed methods study comparing the use of two open personal constructions in Finnish

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