Marja Peltomaa

List of John Benjamins publications for which Marja Peltomaa plays a role.

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Peltomaa, Marja 2006 Pragmatic nature of Mandarin passive-like constructions Passivization and Typology: Form and function, Abraham, Werner and Larisa Leisiö (eds.), pp. 83–114 | Article
This paper examines the Mandarin bei-construction, which is one of the passive structures typical to many East Asian and South-East Asian languages. The relationship of these passives to the more familiar Indo-European passives has been a topic of much discussion. Huang (forth.:37) suggests that… read more