Concept: passive voice construction

Definition

A passive voice construction is the coded alternant in a °passive voice alternation.

Comments

A passive voice construction is defined here as a a strategy, not as a functionally defined construction as in Croft's (2022) definition.

Croft's comparative concept
passive–inverse voice construction (CXN):

passive–inverse voice construction (CXN) = a type of nonbasic voice construction that expresses a situation in which the P participant has a higher discourse salience than the A participant. Example: the English Passive Construction, as in The boys were followed by a mountain lion, is an instance of the passive–inverse voice construction. (Sections 6.3.4, 8.3)

Wikipedia
passive voice
SIL Glossary
passive voice
Quotation
"We understand the term _passive_ here as a construction where the external argument is always present semantically, but is either implicit or expressed as an oblique or PP." (Wood & Tyler 2025: 503)
Sources
Wood and Tyler 2025