Passive constructions in English and Chinese: A corpus-based contrastive study .

McEnery, A. M. and Xiao, R. Z. (2005) Passive constructions in English and Chinese: A corpus-based contrastive study . Proceedings from the Corpus Linguistics Conference Series, 1 (1). ISSN 1747-9398

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Abstract

This paper explores passive constructions in English and Chinese on the basis of written and spoken corpora of English and Chinese from a contrastive perspective.

Item Type:

Journal Article

Journal or Publication Title:

Proceedings from the Corpus Linguistics Conference Series

Uncontrolled Keywords:

/dk/atira/pure/core/keywords/englishlanguageandlinguistics

Subjects:

?? passivescorpuscontrastiveenglishchineseenglish language and linguisticsp philology. linguistics ??

Departments:

Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences > Linguistics & English Language

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Deposited By:

Dr Richard Xiao

Deposited On:

17 Jun 2005

Refereed?:

Yes

Published?:

Published

Last Modified:

26 Sep 2024 00:31

URI:

https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/63