The dynamic passive
The dynamic passive has two forms, the u-passive and the m-passive. Both are agent-suppressing passives, i.e. the agent cannot be explicitly expressed in the clause, whereas the object is promoted to the role of the single intranstive subject. Pragmatically, it is mostly used to express the action of a backgrounded plural actor (usually recoverable from context) on a foreground participant.
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The dynamic passive has two forms, the u-passive and the m-passive. Both are agent-suppressing passives, i.e. the agent cannot be explicitly expressed in the clause, whereas the object is promoted to the role of the single intranstive subject. Pragmatically, it is mostly used to express the action of a backgrounded plural actor (usually recoverable from context) on a foreground participant.
Read more at page: http://ezlinguistics.blogspot.de/p/valency-changing.html
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