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16-September-2008 16:15:14 - Grammatical voice Redirected from Active voice In grammar, the voice also called gender or diathesis of a verb describes the relationship between the action or state that the verb expresses and the participants identified by its arguments subject, object, etc.. When the subject is the agent or actor of the verb, the verb is in the active voice. When the subject is the patient, target or undergoer of the action, it is said to be in the passive voice. For example, in the sentence: The cat ate the mouse. the verb ate is in the active voice, but in the sentence: The mouse was eaten by the cat. the verbal phrase was eaten is passive. In a transformation from an active-voice clause to an equivalent passive-voice construction, the subject and the direct object switch grammatical roles. The direct object gets promoted to subject, and the subject demoted to an optional complement. In the examples above, the mouse serves as the direct object in the active-voice version, but becomes the subject in the passive version. The subject of the active-voice version, the cat, becomes part of a prepositional phrase in the passive version of the sentence, and could be left out entirely. Contents 1 The passive voice in English 2 The middle voice 3 Other grammatical voices 4 The passive voice in topic-prominent languages 5 The fourth person in Baltic-Finnic languages 6 The autonomous in Celtic languages 7 Dynamic and static passive 7.1 In German 7.2 In Spanish 7.3 In Italian 7.4 In Venetian 8 List of voices 9 See also 10 External links The passive voice in English Main article: English passive voice The English language uses a periphrastic passive voice; that is, it is not a single word form, but rather a construction making use of other word forms. Specifically, it is made up of a form of the auxiliary verb to be and a past participle of the main verb. In other languages, such as Latin, the passive voice is simply marked on the verb by inflection: poemam legit He reads the poem; poema legitur The poem is read. The middle voice Further information: Deponent verb, Reflexive verb, Mediopassive voice and Unaccusative verb Some languages such as Sanskrit, Icelandic and Classical Greek have a middle voice. The middle voice is in the middle of the active and the passive voice because the subject cannot be categorized as either agent or patient but has elements of both. An intransitive verb that appears active but expresses a passive action characterizes the English middle voice. For example, in The casserole cooked in the oven, cooked appears syntactically active but semantically passive, putting it in the middle voice. In Classical Greek, the middle voice is often reflexive, denoting that the subject acts on or for itself, such as The boy washes himself, or The boy washes. It can be transitive or intransitive. It can occasionally be used in a causative sense, such as The father causes his son to be set free, or The father ransoms his son. Many deponent verbs in Latin represent survivals of the Proto-Indo-European middle voice; many of these in turn survive as obligatory pseudo-reflexive verbs in the Romance languages such as French and Spanish. Other grammatical voices Some languages have even more grammatical voices. For example, Classic Mongolian features five voices: active, passive, causative, reciprocal and cooperative. The antipassive voice deletes or demotes the object of transitive verbs, and promotes the actor to an intransitive subject. This voice is very common among ergative languages which may feature passive voices as well, but rare among nominative-accusative languages. There are also phenomena that look at first glance like they change the valence of a verb, but in fact do not. So called hierarchical or inversion languages are of this sort. Their agreement system will be sensitive to an external person or animacy hierarchy or a combination of both: 1 2 3 or Anim Inan and so forth. E.g., in Meskwaki an Algonquian language, verbs inflect for both subject and object, but agreement markers do not have inherent values for these. Rather, a third marker, the direct or inverse marker, indicates the proper interpretation: ne-wa:pam-e:-w-a 1-look.at-DIR-3-3Sg I am looking at him, but ne-wa:pam-ekw-w-a 1-look.at-INV-3-3Sg He is looking at me. Some scholars notably Rhodes have analyzed this as a kind of obligatory passivization dependent on animacy, while others have claimed it is not a voice at all, but rather see inversion as yet another kind of alignment type, parallel to nominative/accusative, ergative/absolutive, split-S, and fluid-S alignments. The passive voice in topic-prominent languages Topic-prominent languages like Mandarin tend not to employ the passive voice as frequently. Mandarin-speakers construct the passive voice by prefixing the active noun phrase with bei- and rearranging the usual word order. For example, this sentence using active voice: Note: the first line is in Traditional Chinese while the second is Simplified Chinese. ç‹— 咬了 這個 男人。 ç‹— 咬了 这个 男人。 Gou yao-le zhege nanren. dog bite-PERFECT this man A dog bit this man. corresponds to this sentence using passive voice: 這個 男人 被 ç‹— 咬了。 这个 男人 被 ç‹— 咬了。 Zhege nanren bei gou yao-le. This man by dog bite-PERFECT. This man was bitten by a dog. In addition, through the addition of the auxiliary verb to be shi the passive voice is frequently used to emphasise the identity of the actor. This example places emphasis on the dog, presumably as opposed to some other animal: 這個 男人 是 被 ç‹— 咬了。 这个 男人 是 被 ç‹— 咬了。 Zhege nanren shi bei gou yao-le. This man is by dog bite-PERFECT. This man was bitten by a dog. Although a topic-prominent language, Japanese employs the passive voice quite frequently, and has two types of passive voice, one that corresponds to that in English and an indirect passive not found in English. This indirect passive is used when something undesirable happens to the speaker. å½¼ ã?¯ 泥棒 ã?« 財布 ã‚’ ç›—ã?¾ã‚Œã?Ÿã€‚ Kare wa dorobÅ? ni saifu o nusumareta. He TOPIC thief AGENT wallet OBJECT steal-PASSIVE-PAST His wallet was stolen by a thief. 僕 ã?¯ 彼女 ã?« 嘘 ã‚’ å??ã?‹ã‚Œã?Ÿã€‚ Boku wa kanojo ni uso o tsukareta. I TOPIC her AGENT lie OBJECT tell-PASSIVE-PAST. I was lied to by her. or She lied to me. The fourth person in Baltic-Finnic languages Some languages do not contrast voices, but similar-looking persons. For example, Baltic-Finnic languages such as Finnish and Estonian have a passive, which conceptually postulates a never-mentioned fourth person called passive or common person in Finnish rather than varying subjectivity or objectivity. For example, translating the sentence The house was blown down as Talo puhallettiin maahan would give the idea that some unmentioned person is blowing the house down by the force of his breath. Also, transitivity may be used, such that the fourth-person Ongelma ratkaistiin, which uses the transitive, means Someone solved the problem, while the fourth-person Ongelma ratkesi uses the anticausative, and means The problem was solved. The autonomous in Celtic languages Celtic languages possess a person/number inflection called the autonomous or impersonal, which has been associated with a passive interpretation, though its syntax is different from canonical passives because the patient of the action is in the accusative, not the nominative. It can be translated into English as the nebulous they, one, or the impersonal you. For example, the common sign interdicting tobacco consumption: Ná Cáitear Tabac DON'T consume-autonomous tobacco. The difference between the autonomous and a true passive is that to the speaker, the autonomous indicates that there is in fact no agent, whereas the passive indicates the demotion of an agent. In English, the formation of the passive allows the optional inclusion of an agent in a prepositional phrase, by the man, etc. Where English would leave out the noun phrase, Irish uses the autonomous, where English includes the noun phrase, Irish uses the passive. Dynamic and static passive Some languages draw a distinction between static or stative passive voice, and dynamic or eventive passive voice. Examples include German, Spanish or Italian. Static means that an action was done to the subject at a certain point in time resulting in a state in the time focussed upon, whereas dynamic means that an action takes place. In German Static passive auxiliary verb: sein Dynamic passive auxiliary verb: werden Ich bin am 20. August geboren I was born on August 20, static Ich wurde am 20. August geboren I became born on August 20, dynamic In Spanish Spanish has three verbs corresponding to English be: ser, estar and haber. Two types of passive voice are formed by them. Ser is used to form the ordinary dynamic passive voice: La puerta es abierta. The door is opened by someone. La puerta es cerrada. The door is closed by someone. Note that this construction is very unidiomatic in this case. The usual phrasing would be La puerta se cierra. Estar is used to form the static passive voice not regarded as a passive voice in traditional Spanish grammar: La puerta está abierta. The door is open, i.e. it has been opened. La puerta está cerrada. The door is closed, i.e. it has been closed. In both cases, the verb's participle is used as the complement as is sometimes the case in English. The verb haber does not form any type of passive voice. In Italian Italian uses two verbs essere and venire to traslate the static and the dynamic passive: Dynamic passive auxiliary verb: essere and venire to be and to come La porta è aperta. or La porta viene aperta. The door is opened by someone or The door comes open by someone. La porta è chiusa. or La porta viene chiusa. The door is closed by someone or The door comes closed by someone. Static passive auxiliary verb: essere to be La porta è aperta. The door is open, i.e. it has been opened. La porta è chiusa. The door is closed, i.e. it has been closed. In Venetian In Venetian Vèneto the difference between dynamic true passive and stative adjectival passive is more clear cut, using èser to be only for the static passives and vegner to become, to come only for the dynamic passive: Å?a porta Å‚a vien verta. The door is opened, dynamic Å?a porta Å‚a xè / l'è verta. The door is open, static Static forms represents much more a property or general condition, whereas the dynamic form is a real passive action entailing by someone: èser proteto. To be protected = to be in a safe condition, static vegner proteto. To be protected = to be defended by so, dynamic èser considarà . To be considered = to have a good reputation, static vegner considarà . To be taken into consideration by people, by so, dynamic èser raprexentà a l'ONU. To be represented at the UN = to have a representation, static vegner raprexentà a l'ONU da un deÅ‚egà . To be represented at the UN by a delegate, dynamic List of voices Voices found in various languages include: Active voice Passive voice Middle voice Mediopassive voice Impersonal passive voice Antipassive voice Reflexive voice the subject and the object of the verb are the same, as in I cut myself Reciprocal voice subject and object perform the verbal action to each other, e. g. I cut her and she cut me Causative voice Adjutative voice Applicative voice Circumstantial voice See also Anticausative verb Grammatical conjugation Deponent verb Dative shift E-Prime English passive voice Valency linguistics External links Online analyzer of the active and passive voice in writing Retrieved from http://en..org/wiki/Grammatical_voice Categories: Grammatical voices Views Article Discussion this page History Personal tools Log in / create account Navigation Main page Contents Featured content Current events Random article Search Go Search Interaction Community portal Recent changes Contact Donate to Help Toolbox What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Printable version Permanent link Cite this page Languages ÄŒesky Deutsch Español Esperanto Français Gà idhlig Italiano Latina Magyar Nederlands Polski Português РуÑ?Ñ?кий Suomi Svenska ä¸æ–‡ This page was last modified on 23 July 2008, at 20:21
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