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Passive voice

Index of SIL publications on Passive voice listed by country.

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General works

• BREND, Ruth M., author. 1986. "Passive functions."
• CALLOW, John C., author. 1986. "Some initial thoughts on the passive New Testament Greek."

Works specific to particular countries

Africa

Côte d’Ivoire

• BEARTH, Thomas, author. 1984. "Périphrases du passif français et la notion de contrôle."

Americas

Mexico

• MARLETT, Stephen A., author. 1979. Personal and impersonal passives in Seri.
• MARLETT, Stephen A., author. 1985. Comments on Ezard’s article ‘The functional domains of passives’.
• MARLETT, Stephen A., author. 2002. "Reanalysis of passive and negative prefixes in Seri."  

Panama

• GUNN, Judith, author. 1982. The use of Buglere passives illustrated from a narrative text.

Asia

Iran

• PAUL, Daniel, author. 2004. The passive in Persian.

Japan

• CORMO, Christiane, author. 1997. "Towards a constructivist approach to the Japanese ‘passive’."  

Laos

• NOMURA, Naomitsu Mikami, author. 1992. "A semantic analysis of the so-called passive verbs in some Indochinese languages."  

Thailand

• NOMURA, Naomitsu Mikami, author. 1992. "A semantic analysis of the so-called passive verbs in some Indochinese languages."  

Viet Nam

• NOMURA, Naomitsu Mikami, author. 1992. "A semantic analysis of the so-called passive verbs in some Indochinese languages."  

Pacific

Papua New Guinea

• BERG, René van den, author. 2006. "An unusual passive in Western Oceanic: the case of Vitu."  
• BRUCE, Leslie P., author. 1974. "Alamblak passivity."  
• EZARD, Bryan, author. 1984. The functional domains of passives.