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Appendix 13 BNC data 1 ''Data extracted herein have been extracted from the British National Corp... more Appendix 13 BNC data 1 ''Data extracted herein have been extracted from the British National Corpus Online Service.'' 2nd Participle Example Note abode Bill received the royal assent were entitled to apply for a full British right of abode passport. N

Books by Samirah Aljohani

VOl.51 Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics, 2022

Most analyses of the English passive (formed with be + V-ed) claim that there is a verbal passive... more Most analyses of the English passive (formed with be + V-ed) claim that
there is a verbal passive and an adjectival passive. How can the same
form express polar opposite meanings? This study of the adjectival passive
reconciles the contradiction using Christopher Beedham’s aspect analysis
of the passive, in which the so-called actional passive (verbal passive) is
said to express an action and its resultant state.

In the study, the author presented approximately one thousand 2nd parti-
ciples, mainly from transitive verbs, to three native speaker informants in

putative noun phrases such as an accepted practice and putative clauses
with un-, such as It is unaccepted, and asked the informants to say if they
are grammatical, ungrammatical or borderline. She also interrogated her
participles in the British National Corpus for their adjectival properties. In
this way, she arrived at five adjective-like properties which a 2nd participle
can have. Finally, she put her participles into eight groups, ranging from
‘0% state, 100% action’ to ‘50% state, 50% action’, depending on how
many and which of the five adjective-like properties they can exhibit. The
result is a new gradient scale of adjectival passives.

Appendix 13 BNC data 1 ''Data extracted herein have been extracted from the British National Corp... more Appendix 13 BNC data 1 ''Data extracted herein have been extracted from the British National Corpus Online Service.'' 2nd Participle Example Note abode Bill received the royal assent were entitled to apply for a full British right of abode passport. N

VOl.51 Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics, 2022

Most analyses of the English passive (formed with be + V-ed) claim that there is a verbal passive... more Most analyses of the English passive (formed with be + V-ed) claim that
there is a verbal passive and an adjectival passive. How can the same
form express polar opposite meanings? This study of the adjectival passive
reconciles the contradiction using Christopher Beedham’s aspect analysis
of the passive, in which the so-called actional passive (verbal passive) is
said to express an action and its resultant state.

In the study, the author presented approximately one thousand 2nd parti-
ciples, mainly from transitive verbs, to three native speaker informants in

putative noun phrases such as an accepted practice and putative clauses
with un-, such as It is unaccepted, and asked the informants to say if they
are grammatical, ungrammatical or borderline. She also interrogated her
participles in the British National Corpus for their adjectival properties. In
this way, she arrived at five adjective-like properties which a 2nd participle
can have. Finally, she put her participles into eight groups, ranging from
‘0% state, 100% action’ to ‘50% state, 50% action’, depending on how
many and which of the five adjective-like properties they can exhibit. The
result is a new gradient scale of adjectival passives.