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Adjutative voice

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The adjutative voice is a grammatical voice carrying the meaning "to help to". The subject of a verb in the adjutative voice is not an agent of the action denoted by the verb, but assists the (unstated) agent in performing the action.

References

  • Trask, R. L. (1993). A Dictionary of Grammatical Terms in Linguistics. Routledge. ISBN 0-415-08628-0.
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