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Evidence for the grammaticalization of raising-to-subject patterns like BE SAID TO as evidential auxiliary constructions.
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The paper rejects the traditional view that nominative-and-infinitives are passive transformations of active accusative-and-infinitives.
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This page is a summary of: The passive matrices of English infinitival complement clauses, Studies in Language, December 2001, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/sl.25.2.04noe.
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