Consider the English pseudo-passive in (4). (4) This bed has not been slept in for many years
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Pseudopassive
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Consider now the pseudo-passive, Er werd gefloten "There was whistling." Here, just as in the true passive, the morphology asserts high participant not focussed.
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A kind of ‘pseudo-passive’ construction is possible, though, with intransitive verbs having a prepositional phrase complement.
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The magnitude of the current density within the region is, of course, too high to be regarded as passive in the conventional sense, and we coin the term "pseudopassive" to describe it.
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