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Nominal agent incorporation in Indonesian*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

John Myhill
John Myhill
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University of Michigan
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One of the most important types of grammatical process in the languages of the world is that involving the intransitivization of a transitive verb and the deletion or demotion of its subject or direct object. The first such process to be analysed was passivization, involving the demotion of a transitive subject to an oblique role or its deletion altogether; this process is central to all linguistic theories and has been known as long as linguistics has been studied.

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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , March 1988 , pp. 111 - 136
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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