What is it about?
antipassive is a construction in which the object (not the subject) is omitted or demoted. This 1976 paper describes a range of functions and structures of this general type in various languages.
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A vintage (1976) paper about an issue that remains current.
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This page is a summary of: Antipassivization: A Functional Typology, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, June 2014, Semantics and Pragmatics,
DOI: 10.3765/bls.v2i0.2278.
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