Titlebook: Diachronic Change in the English Passive; Junichi Toyota Book 2008 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2008 dia

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-passive, .-passive, and instead associates the .-passive with other voice forms, such as the middle-reflexive voice. Also, most previous research is synchronic (Hatcher 1949; Lakoff 1971; Barber 1975; Chappell 1980; Haegeman 1985; Vanrespaille 1991; Collins 1996; Downing 1996), although there is some diachr

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Components of ,-passive and their Historical Change,nted at in the discussion of Table 2.7, we need to look at auxiliary and past participle separately in order to understand the change better. For auxiliary, we look at the status of . as auxiliary and some particular syntactic constructions with the passive. As for the past participle, we look at va

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Functions of ,-passive,with the passive. As we will see shortly, there are two main functions, topicalisation and impersonalisation, but some others have also been proposed. There are, however, some constructions which do not really fit into the typical functional characteristics. They are termed ‘presentative passive’ he

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Functional Change and Voice Continuum,passive throughout the history of English, concentrating on topicalisation and impersonalisation. Various aspects of grammar, such as word order, are incorporated in relation to the topicality. A comparison is also made between the periphrastic passive and the morphological passive, in order to high

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