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How adjectival can a participle be?: Subsective Gradience in English 2nd Participles

How adjectival can a participle be?: Subsective Gradience in English 2nd Participles

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Series: Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics, Book 51

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ISBN10: 1800795246
ISBN13: 9781800795242
Publisher: Peter Lang Uk
Published: May 10 2022
Pages: 422
Weight: 1.28
Height: 0.89 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This study of the adjectival passive uses Christopher Beedham's aspect analysis of the passive to reconcile the contradiction between verbal and adjectival passive. The author's study of 1,000 2nd participles presented to native speakers results in a new gradient scale of adjectival passives.

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