Publications

Publication details [#12573]

Cornelis, Louise H. 1995. Passive and pronoun. In Fava, Elisabetta, ed. Speech Acts and Linguistic Research. Proceedings of the Workshop, July 15-17, 1994, Proceedings of the workshop, July 15-17, 1994, Center of Cognitive Science of New York at Buffalo. Edizioni nemo. pp. 125–137.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

agent | causality | pronoun | transitivity

Language as a subject

Dutch

Annotation

On folk view of causation, transitivity and the central and non-central status (passive clause) of the agent. Analyzed data -first and third person pronouns- belonging to the Eindhoven Corpus, support the claim that language users prefer to present events from their own perspective.