| Lemma | active function and passive function |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Martinet (1962) |
| Titolo | A Functional View of Language |
| Sinonimi | |
| Rinvii | voice (inglese) |
| Traduzioni | |
| Citazioni | […] if opening is the action, and the participants a gardener and a gate , I may choose to say 'the gardener opens the gate' or 'the gate is opened by the gardener'. We will have to distinguish between an active function, and a passive function, these functions being, of course, nothing but our traditional ‘voices’. It is not easy to tell what functional indicators are in 'opens' and 'is opened'; probably '–s' for one function, 'is…ed' for the other. |