Is there a passive in Dhuluo

This article presents an analysis of a particular passive-like syntactic construction in Dholuo, a Nilotic language spoken in parts of Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. While the construction analyzed resembles the passive construction in English in which the fronted patient/theme is the subject NP, the...

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Autor principal:	Eunita D. Ochola
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Publicado:	LibraryPress@UF 1999
Materias:	passive Dhoulou Nilotic pseudo-passive Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:2682c56a63954fdcaf30177080a943242021-11-19T03:53:45ZIs there a passive in Dhuluo10.32473/sal.v28i1.1073800039-35332154-428Xhttps://doaj.org/article/2682c56a63954fdcaf30177080a943241999-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.flvc.org/sal/article/view/107380https://doaj.org/toc/0039-3533https://doaj.org/toc/2154-428XThis article presents an analysis of a particular passive-like syntactic construction in Dholuo, a Nilotic language spoken in parts of Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. While the construction analyzed resembles the passive construction in English in which the fronted patient/theme is the subject NP, the analysis shows that this construction is not a true passive in Dholuo, but rather a pseudo-passive. The peculiarity of the Dholuo pseudo-passive is that the fronted patient is not the NP subject of the construction; rather, it is a preposed object that is adjoined to IP. What distinguishes this construction from "classic" passive constructions is that the preposed object does not control subject verb agreement.Eunita D. OcholaLibraryPress@UFarticlepassiveDhoulouNiloticpseudo-passivePhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091ENFRStudies in African Linguistics, Vol 28, Iss 1 (1999)
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description	This article presents an analysis of a particular passive-like syntactic construction in Dholuo, a Nilotic language spoken in parts of Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. While the construction analyzed resembles the passive construction in English in which the fronted patient/theme is the subject NP, the analysis shows that this construction is not a true passive in Dholuo, but rather a pseudo-passive. The peculiarity of the Dholuo pseudo-passive is that the fronted patient is not the NP subject of the construction; rather, it is a preposed object that is adjoined to IP. What distinguishes this construction from "classic" passive constructions is that the preposed object does not control subject verb agreement.
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Is there a passive in Dhuluo

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