PASSIVE TRANSITIVE SENTENCES FROM VIEWPOINT OF TRANSITIVITY AND COGNITION
This paper is on passive transitive sentences - a topic that many scholars have discussed - in a different perspective. Specifically, this paper discusses the passive transitive sentences within the participant structure, semantic structure roles of transitive sentences and these roles are associate...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Dalat University
2016-03-01
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| Series: | Tạp chí Khoa học Đại học Đà Lạt |
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| Online Access: | http://tckh.dlu.edu.vn/index.php/tckhdhdl/article/view/20 |
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| Summary: | This paper is on passive transitive sentences - a topic that many scholars have discussed - in a different perspective. Specifically, this paper discusses the passive transitive sentences within the participant structure, semantic structure roles of transitive sentences and these roles are associated with their cognitive prominence. Through this cognitive prominence, the paper shows that foregrounding this role or other roles in the passive transitives is motivated cognitively. This is a universal feature of human thoughts. |
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| ISSN: | 0866-787X 0866-787X |