Alternation ‘voice alternation - analytic passive with wisan’ (Coded)

As analytic passives can be used both in the present and the past tenses, this construction is thought to be in the process of expanding its domain at the expense of the synthetic passives (Miller 2019: 2017; Ratkus 2020). Analytic passives can be constructed with the auxiliaries wisan ‘be’ or wairþan ‘become’, the former indicating an “entailed-state resultative” and the latter expressing “an attained state resultative” (Katz 2016: 206; see also Kotin 1997; Pagliarulo 2008; Miller 2019: 216–219).