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Book: The Development of Scientific Writing

Chapter: 5. Passives

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.21262

Blurb:

This chapter looks at the increasing use of passives in the Philosophical Transactions Corpus over the period 1700-1980 and also considers passive use in terms of process types which are passivised.

Chapter Contributors

  • David Banks ([email protected] - book-auth-326) 'Université de Bretagne Occidentale (Brest)'