L'autonomie du passif anglais

Emmanuelle Roussel (1)

1 CRISCO - Centre de recherche inter-langues sur la signification en contexte

This paper deals with the way the comment value conventionally associated with the passive construction builds up. This value is studied from two points of view. I first examine the connections that it will form with the addressee, and then I confront the very value with that found in the present perfect (another compound form of the English language) which I have studied at length. Far from conflicting, these two comment values complement each other and in a sense could be seen as forming a kind of subsystem per se.

Domaines: Linguistique

Emmanuelle Roussel. L'autonomie du passif anglais. Anglophonia, French Journal of English Studies, 2005, 18, pp.185-203. ⟨hal-00012398⟩