This paper presents a realization of passive construction in Reunion, French Department in the Indian Ocean (southern hemisphere) submitted to a wet tropical climate. Aspects of passive construction were integrated at the design stage and this house does not present additional costs towards classical ones. This project was awarded a prize for architecture climate [1].

This paper presents a realization of passive construction in Reunion, French Department in the Indian Ocean (southern hemisphere) submitted to a wet tropical climate. Aspects of passive construction were integrated at the design stage and this house does not present additional costs towards classical ones. This project was awarded a prize for architecture climate [1].

There are several competing analyses for the Mandarin long passive. The first is the movement hypothesis (e.g. Travis, 1984; Koopman, 1984; Li, 1990) in which the long passive is involves NP-movement analogous to the kind that occurs in English be passives. The morpheme bei is treated as a preposition that both suppresses the subject and absorbs the accusative case of the object. The object thu...

The Principles and Parameters approach aimed to eliminate syntactic rules and constructions in favor of general movement processes and principles, and to account for language-specific syntax by construction-independent parameters. Disappointingly, much systematic syntactic variation, including the cross-linguistic variation in passives that is the topic of this article, turned out not to be red...

In this paper, we present the analysis to demonstrate that the inverse optimal control, based on a CLF, is passive. In order to do so, a storage function and a supply rate are established using the construction of such control and the properties of passive systems; these functions allow to state that this inverse optimal control is indeed passive.