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Publication details [#2567]

Davison, Alice. 1980. Peculiar passives. Language 56 (1) : 42–66.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational implicature | passive construction

Person as a subject

Grice, P.H.

Annotation

D. suggests that the extra attitudinal and modal meaning of passive sentences (as compared to the corresponding active ones) are derived by Gricean conversational implicature.