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Publication details [#28192]

Zhu, Chunshen. 1996. Syntactic status of the agent: Its significance for information presentation in translating the passive between Chinese and English. Multilingua 15 (4) : 397–417.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

agent | information chunking | passive | syntactic construction | translation

Language as a subject

Chinese | English

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter Mouton

ISBN

0167-8507

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/MULT/html

Annotation

This comparative study explores the syntactic status of the agent in passive constructions in Chinese and English, in the light of its significance for information presentation in translations.