GENGO KENKYU (Journal of the Linguistic Society of Japan)
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When Passives Mean Causative: The Role of the Agent-Oriented Adverb Wazato
Yuji HatakeyamaKensuke HondaKosuke Tanaka
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2018 Volume 154 Pages 193-204

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This paper points out that Japanese passive sentences can be interpreted as causative, especially when they include the agent-oriented adverb like wazato ‘on purpose’. It is, furthermore, shown that there are strong similarities between Japanese passives and English get-passives in that they can be interpreted as both passive and causative.

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