Alternation ‘impersonal passive’ (Coded )

In Old Latin in the impersonal passive alternation, verbs occur in the passive voice and have no syntactic subject, i.e., they are inflected in the third person singular. Two types of impersonal passive clauses can be distinguished. a) The verbs involved are mainly one-place verbs that almost without exception belong to a controlled state of affairs. Rarely, the verbs may also be two-place (and three-place) used absolutely. The most common class of one- place verbs are motion verbs. b) Two-place (and three-place) verbs governing a non- accusative object with that object expressed. Similar to these verbs are verbs with a prepositional object expressed. The agent of the state of affairs in impersonal passive clauses is almost always human and is very rarely expressed.