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Cain, Bruce D. 1995. Maldivian prototypical passives and related constructions. Anthropological Linguistics 37 (4) : 524–540.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

agent | focus | passive | pragmatic function | verb

Language as a subject

Maldivian

Place, Publisher

Indiana University

ISBN

0003-5483

Annotation

This paper deals with prototypical passive and passive-related constructions in Maldivian. It describes the various functions of derived verbs and the constructions in which they figure, and compares them with Sinhala.