Passive
Active and passive voices
I do not have any publications on the passive itself, but have often touched on the contrast between the active and passive voices in various studies. The following is a case in point, where I note the difference of complementation patters between the active and passive, of causative constructions.
- Iyeiri, Yoko. 2012. “The Complements of Causative make in Late Middle English”, in Middle and Modern English Corpus Linguistics: A Multi-dimensional Approach, ed. Manfred Markus, Yoko Iyeiri, Reinhard Heuberger, & Emil Chamson, pp. 59-73. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Complementation patterns of the verb forbid also differ significantly between the active and passive voices. My publications on this verb include the following, where I demonstrate that the speed of the expansion of the construction with from –ing differs between the two voices.
- Iyeiri, Yoko. 2017. “Recent Changes in the Use of the Verb forbid“. Memoirs of the Faculty of Letters, Kyoto University 56: 195-218. (Downloadable PDF)
Various passive constructions
Also, in my book entitled Benjamin Franklin’s English: Form to Function Analyses (Abingdon: Routledge, 2025), I have examined the verb show in relation to the direct and indirect passive. I have also discussed pseudo passive constructions, focusing on become and grow, though relevant pseudo passive examples are very restricted for the latter verb in Benjamin Franklin’s writings. Pseudo passive constructions are those involving verbs such as become, grow, and seem instead of be (cf. Quirk et al. 1985: §3.66).
