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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Marathi impersonal passive, also known as
capability passive, though morphologically siminlar to personal passive
(PP) has entirely different syntactic properties and exhibits certain
morphological variations not found in PP. (See Rosen and Wali 1989, Twin
Passives, Inversion and multistratalism in Marathi: NLLT 7, 1-50. Some
interesting properties of Capability Passives are : the demoted agent retains
certain subject properties, and if there is an unmarked NP, it shoe agr. with
the verb but no subject or object properties. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>M. ergative marker -ne/ni is used to mark the
subject transitives in the perfective and the subject of subjunctives. In
addition it is also used to mark (i) Inanimate causer in intransitives;
(ii) instrumental marker (iii) locative marker in certain instances. In (i-iii)
it has no ergative sense. It also has several other postpositional uses. If
interested I can send a list. </FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>