Adjutative voice

Adjutative voice

The adjutative voice is a grammatical voice carrying the meaning "to help to". The subject of a verb in the adjutative voice is not an agent of the action denoted by the verb, but is assisting an (unstated) agent in performing the action.

References

*cite book
first = R. L.
last = Trask
year = 1993
title = A Dictionary of Grammatical Terms in Linguistics
publisher = Routledge
id = ISBN 0-415-08628-0


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