Kena as a third type of Malay passive.

From: Oceanic Linguistics | Date: June 1, 2005| Author: Chung, Siaw-Fong | Copyright information

Two types of passive in Malay are compared using corpora examples, the di- passive and the kena adversative passive. It is proposed that the latter is constrained by pragmatic specifications related to the contexts in which it appears. In one analysis, 50 instances of each of these two passives collected from two newspapers were compared as to their frequency, degree of transitivity, and two pragmatic functions: their connotations and their register. The results show that the kena ...

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