Multifactorial studies of the be:get-passive alternation are still rare. On the basis of the International Corpus of English, this is the first investigation to use mixed modelling for the passive alternation in world Englishes. Overall, our findings reveal that regional differences are far less important than language-internal constraints, with Inner and Outer Circle varieties largely sharing a core grammar. Additionally, while there is qualitative evidence confirming the interchangeability of the two passive allostructions, our generalised-mixed model reveals that the choice is still heavily influenced by the different semantic origins of the variants, evident not only in the adversative semantics of the get-passive but also in a tendency to prefer human/animate subjects. The strong prescriptive reaction to the progressive passive in the Late Modern period, however, has not resulted in a marked preference for get over be in progressives in our data.

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世界英语中的be-与get-passive交替

对be:get-被动交替的多因素研究仍然很少。本研究以国际英语语料库为基础，首次采用混合模型对世界英语的被动交替进行研究。总体而言，我们的研究结果表明，区域差异远不如语言内部限制重要，内圈和外圈变体在很大程度上共享核心语法。此外，虽然有定性证据证实这两种被动同构的可互换性，但我们的广义混合模型表明，选择仍然受到变体的不同语义起源的严重影响，这不仅在 get 被动的逆向语义中很明显但也倾向于偏爱人类/动物主题。然而，现代晚期对进行式被动语态的强烈规定性反应并没有导致我们的数据中对进行式被动语态的明显偏好。