This paper tries to explore differences between Chinese and English passives from the perspective of figure-ground theory in cognitive linguistics. Based on the prominent principles in figure-ground theory, it compares the English and Chinese passives from the angle of prototypical and non-prototypical types and aims to find out a better and stronger explanation for the deep mechanism for Engli...

In this chapter we shall examine the characteristic properties of a construction wide-spread in the world’s languages, the passive. In section 1 below we discuss defining characteristics of passives, contrasting them with other foregrounding and backgrounding constructions. In section 2 we present the common syntactic and semantic properties of the most wide-spread types of passives, and in sec...

Schwarz, S. 2018. Passive voices. be-, getand prepositional passives in recent American English. 67 pp. Uppsala: Department of English, Uppsala University. ISBN 978-91-506-2682-7. The aim of the thesis is to shed light on the use and development of passive voice in American English. Empirical, corpus methods are employed in order to examine the syntactic, semantic, and stylistic preferences of ...

is paper deals with ‘stacked passives’ in Turkish, an impersonal passive construction with two occurrences of passive morphology and two instances of argument reduction. e aim will be to adequately capture the fact that each instance of passivization seems to be mirrored by a morphological režex on the verb. I will adopt the theory of passivization in Müller (2014), who assumes that passivizati...

Embick (2004) has recently challenged the widely held view that English resultative participles (or adjectival passives) are formed in the lexicon while (verbal) passives are built syntactically (a proposal originally formalized in Wasow 1977; see also Bresnan 1982, Levin and Rappaport 1986, and many others). Instead, Embick argues for a syntactic analysis to explain why only certain arguments ...

The Noise Figure of a Low Noise Amplifier is a function of the quality factor of its inductors. The lack of high-Q inductors in silicon has prevented the development of completely integrated CMOS LNAs for high sensitivity applications like GSM (1.9 GHz) and W-CDMA (2.1 GHz). Recent developments in the design of high-Q inductors (embedded in low cost IC packages) have made single-package integra...