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Publication details [#8878]
Silverstein, Michael. 1978. Deixis and deducibility in a Wasco-Wishram passive of evidence. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 4 : 238–253. 
Annotation
In the passive of evidence, the speaker expresses his estimation that the person or thing referred to with the subject of the passive has been the patient of some transitive action described by the verb stem. S. discusses the rise of this construction, historically, and he argues for its pragmatic nature in a number of respects.