Abstract:
A passive sentence construction is a grammatical process in which an object noun phrase of an active verb becomes the subject noun phrase of the passive verb, while the subject noun phrase of the active verb is degraded to a prepositional phrase or totally omitted for various reasons such as emphasis and focus. An in-depth investigation of passive sentence construction in Otjiherero has received very little attention so far, as many scholars have concentrated on passive extensions only without explaining how passivization works in Otjiherero. Thus this article focuses on providing a detailed description of Otjiherero passive grammatical features from a descriptive perspective.
