A Passive in which a basic Oblique nominal assumes the Subject relation in a corresponding nonbasic configuration. Can include locative passives, benefactive passives and instrumental passives. [Klaiman 1991,23]
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| Now their farm will not stay behind forever. |
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Haspelmath (1993:207)
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