@article{80271,
  author           = {Kawasha, Boniface},
  journal          = {Journal of African Languages and Linguistics},
  number           = {1},
  pages            = {37-56},
  publisher        = {Walter de Gruyter},
  title            = {Passivization in Lunda},
  url              = {http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/jall.2007.28.issue-1/jall.2007.003/jall.2007.003.xml},
  volume           = {28},
  year             = {2007},
  abstract         = {Studies have shown that passivization in Bantu languages is effected by means of a derivational suffix attached to the verb. This passivization pattern is residual and no longer productive in Lunda in that only a very small set of verbs allows the passive morphological suffix. It has been replaced by a new type of a passive construction which at face value appears as an impersonal construction because of the presence of the nonreferential class 2 third person plural subject prefix and the non-promotion of the non-agent to subjecthood in a clause. In this paper, I will show that the Lunda construction meets some of the characteristics of a canonical passive and that passivization also serves as one of the tests for transitivity despite the failure of the non-agent to become the subject of the clause.},
  citekeys         = {langsci326:kawasha2007passivization},
  doi              = {10.1515/jall.2007.003},
  isreferencedby   = {langsci326},
  issn             = {0167-6164},
  keywords         = {;caf;saf;zmb;drc;lng;grm;bnt;l.52;},
  lgcode           = {Lunda [lun] (autotranslated from Maho's coding system)},
  macro_area       = {Africa},
  src              = {degruyter, eballiso2009, langsci, weball},
  subject_headings = {caf, zmb, drc, lng, grm, bnt, l.52}
}