Agent Demotion in German and Polish
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This paper provides a contrastive account of agent demotion in German and Polish. While is relatively broad term that often used including mere backgrounding, the focus on lexical morphosyntactic means allow for agents to be omitted entirely, such as different forms passive voice, reflexive constructions, generic pronouns or unaccusative verbs with impersonal subjects (among others). It argued constructions consisting an auxiliary participle seem exhibit much higher frequencies German, while Polish commonly uses subjectless agentless reflexives, certain modal elements -no/-to-construction. confirms more central position within SAE Sprachbund accounts transfer phenomena may arise when speakers either language become learners other.
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عنوان ژورنال: Linguistik online
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['1615-3014']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13092/lo.115.8641