The majority of world’s languages do not have passive, and the function passive fulfills can be fulfilled by other morphosyntactic means. This situation seems to apply to the Chadic languages as well; even in Hausa, the passive construction seems to have a low functional load.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:32905 |
| Date | 31 January 2019 |
| Creators | Abdoulaye, Mahamane L. |
| Publisher | Universität Leipzig |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, doc-type:book, info:eu-repo/semantics/book, doc-type:Text |
| Source | University of Leipzig papers on Africa |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-323788, qucosa:32378 |
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