The Effect of Prominence Hierarchies on Modern English Long Passives: Pragmatic vs. Syntactic Factors
This paper examines the effect of the most relevant crosslinguistic prominence hierarchies on long passives (or passives with an overt by-phrase), in order to identify the factors which condition their choice over actives as order-rearranging strategies in Modern English (1500-1900).With empirical data drawn from the Helsinki Corpus and ARCHER, I w