English vs. Chinese passives (3)
{"Image DocumentName": "English vs. Chinese passives (3)", "Image ImageDescription": "Long vs. short passives. Short passives are predominant in English (over 90% in speech and writing) Often used as a strategy that allows one to avoid mentioning the agent when it cannot or must not be mentioned. 3 out of 5 syntactic passive markers in Chinese (wei\u2026suo, jiao and rang) only occur in long passives. For bei and gei passives, proportions of short forms (60.7% and 57.5% respectively) are significantly lower than in English. The agent must normally be spelt out at early stages of Chinese, though the constraints have become more relaxed. 26/06/2009. PALCO, Nottingham Ningbo.", "Image XResolution": "37", "Image YResolution": "37", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}