Talk:Pseudo-passive

September 2009

This is not the usage of term Pseudo-passive as it is used in linguistics (in particular the usage used throughout the 1960s and 1970s particularly in the theory of Relational Grammar). Pseudo-passives for them concerned the fronting of *NON* thematic arguments into subject position. Such as "This bed was slept in by Lincoln", where sleep is an intransitive (unergative) verb, and bed is underlyingly an oblique (marked with in). Can someone provide references for the usage described in this article? The reference for the common linguistics usage is Perlmutter and Postal's seminal article "Toward a Universal Characterization of the Passive" in the Volume Relational Grammar 1 published by UChicago Press. I'd like to see a citation of the usage described in this article...

This article seems highly confused (largely incomprehensible, and inaccurate as mentioned above). I suggest merging it, and the similarly unviable pseudopassivization article, into English passive voice. Victor Yus (talk) 09:27, 18 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with the first comment, however I disagree with where this was merged. I think this should be merged into Impersonal passive voice.Joeystanley (talk) 19:21, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Merger proposal

This is instead of the current redirect to English passive voice#Prepositional passive. Joeystanley (talk) 19:12, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]