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