Open AccessConsiderations upon Grammatical Synonymy with Passive Voice Structures in English and Romanian
Author(s) -
Anca Florina Lipan
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
romanian journal of english studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2286-0428
pISSN - 1584-3734
DOI - 10.1515/rjes-2018-0011
Subject(s) - romanian , linguistics , similarity (geometry) , contrast (vision) , computer science , degree (music) , natural language processing , psychology , artificial intelligence , acoustics , physics , philosophy , image (mathematics)
If synonymy implies both a degree of similarity as well as difference between synonymous terms, the present paper will give a brief account of the similarities and differences between the meanings of active and passive voice corresponding constructions in both English and Romanian with a view to highlight the contrast as well as the similarity between language systems.