The Urdu Active Impersonal

Authors

  • Sana Kidwai University of Cambridge

Abstract

It has been reported in several works that Urdu can optionally preserve accusative case in passives. In this paper, I show that the accusative-preserving passive construction is different from canonical passives, and reanalyse it as an active construction with a silent pro subject. I also compare it to similar constructions in Polish, Ukrainian, Icelandic and Viennese German.

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Published

2022-01-13