Alternation ‘passive lability with infinitive’ (Uncoded)

The passive alternation can also be left uncoded with infinitives: these forms are said to be underspecified for voice (Miller 2019: 219–221). In object control structures, the passive reading is instead accounted for as a translational effect (Joseph 1981: 368; Harbert 2007: 331).

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