The Passive across Two Registers of Present-Day British English: A Corpus-Based Lexico-Grammatical Perspective

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11410%2F23%3A10469099" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11410/23:10469099 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=6H89.6Tj3c" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=6H89.6Tj3c</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/pjes-2023-0005" target="_blank" >10.2478/pjes-2023-0005</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Passive across Two Registers of Present-Day British English: A Corpus-Based Lexico-Grammatical Perspective
Original language description
The paper explores the use of the passive in present-day British English, focusing on its register-specific lexico-grammatical patterns. The interaction of the grammatical structure, lexis, phraseology and register is examined on the basis of two sub-corpora of the British National Corpus 2014, academic prose and informal conversation. The results have corroborated the findings of previous studies in that the pattern 'BE / GET V-ed' is populated by verbal participial forms which create a cline with de-participial adjectives. The communicative needs of registers have been shown to have a decisive impact on the frequency of passive patterns and the specific lexical choices associated with the patterns. In both registers, the 'BE / GET V-ed' patterns appear to constitute the core of larger fixed phraseological units, e.g., can't be bothered to/with, or it should be noted that.
Czech name
—
Czech description
—

Project
—
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Similar results(10)