'Bare passives' and 'relative clauses' in be-passive form as modifiers

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,3, University of Münster, language: English, abstract: 1IntroductionIn order to learn more about the English language and how it is actually used by the native speaker community I am going to investigate the occurrence of bare passives as modifiers and of relative clauses in be-passive form which can be compared to the former in its function as modifier. With help of the queries I will find out how many of these constructions exist in The Penn Treebank and then take a closer look at the beginning of sentences. Which of these two grammatical phenomenon is more frequent at the beginnings of sentences and why? Firstly in this term paper, I will introduce the grammatical phenomenon of the passive voice with its variants 'be-passive', 'get-passive' and 'bare passive' by contrasting it to the active voice. Furthermore I will explain the development of the different queries needed for the research whose findings will be discussed subsequent to that.

Product details

• Authors: Annika Onken
• Publisher: Grin Verlag
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.12.2010
• EAN: 9783638893343
• ISBN: 978-3-638-89334-3
• No. of pages: 16
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 210 mm x 2 mm
• Weight: 40 g
• Series: Akademische Schriftenreihe; Akademische Schriftenreihe, Bd. V84333; Akademische Schriftenreihe; Akademische Schriftenreihe Bd. V84333
• Subjects: Fiction > Mixed anthologies; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics