A Smuggling Approach to the Passive in English

A Fuzzy Logic Approach to Estimate the Import of Smuggling in Iran

Agreement and the Icelandic Passive1

We propose an analysis of the morphology of dative-nominative passives in Icelandic. This account is based on a previous proposal of active predicates which alternate between a dative-nominative and nominative-dative case frame (Wood and Sigurðsson 2014). We show that obligatory agreement with the nominative in the passive is the consequence of the absence of the dative intervention effect whic...

The Syntactic Structures of the Chinese Bei Passive and the English Be-passive*

A significant word order difference between the English be-passive and the Chinese bei passive is that in English, the external argument occurs at the end of the sentence as in John was hit by Bill, while in Chinese, the external argument precedes the main verb as in (1). From the traditional view that took the agent phrase (byor bei-phrase) to be an adjunct, the word order difference simply fo...

Criminological Analysis of the Anti-Smuggling of Goods and Currency Law "Adopted in 1392"

Smuggling commodities and currencies, as a social and economic phenomenon, have very adverse economic effects. The smuggling of goods and the importance of fighting them, organizing the status of border exchanges, moving towards a transparent economy and adapting the behavior of regulatory bodies are among the most important operational axes to combat smuggling of goods. In this article, after ...

The Effect of Output Tasks on the Noticing and Learning English Passive Structure

This study was an attempt to investigate whether output tasks, i.e., reconstruction and picturecuedwriting tasks, promote learners’ noticing of English passive structure compared to nonoutputtasks, i.e., reading comprehension and if so, which output task is more effective inenhancing learners’ noticing. In addition, this study aimed to investigate whether output tasksfacilitate learning of Engl...