@article{672007,
  author         = {van den Berg, René},
  journal        = {Oceanic Linguistics},
  number         = {1},
  pages          = {54--70},
  publisher      = {University of Hawai'i Press},
  title          = {An Unusual Passive in Western Oceanic: The Case of Vitu},
  url            = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/4499981},
  volume         = {46},
  year           = {2007},
  abstract       = {Passive constructions are rare in Melanesia and none is reconstructed for Proto-Oceanic. This paper reports on a passive in Vitu, a Meso-Melanesian language spoken in West New Britain, Papua New Guinea, describing its structural properties (some of which are unusual) and attempting to provide a diachronic scenario through which it may have arisen.},
  citekeys       = {cldf4:1023074499981},
  hhtype         = {specific_feature},
  inlg           = {English [eng]},
  isreferencedby = {cldf4},
  issn           = {00298115, 15279421},
  lgcode         = {[mudu1242]},
  macro_area     = {Papunesia},
  src            = {cldf}
}