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Why passives are – or are not – used in Spanish

The article “Grammatical coding and the discursive construction of participants: Spanish passives in written press news discourse”, by Miguel A. Aijón Oliva, has just been published online in "Transactions of the Philological Society". It presents a comparative analysis of the two main Spanish constructions that are usually characterized as passive: the attributive and the reflexive one.
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