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structure in Acehnese that has been referred to as Acehnese
"passive" following the tradition of Dutch linguists. This
structure is also treated as passive in Lawler (1975 and
1977). Although this has been rejected in Durie (1985 and
1987), the term "passive" will be used in this dissertation
to refer to'this type of structure.
Acehnese passive has the following characteristics:
1) The subject of a passive sentence is the object of
its active counterpart. The subject here is meant the
subject as defined in 3.3.1 in this chapter. When this
subject is in the initial position, the intonation is as
described in 3.2.1. Compare the intonation of the active and
passive variants of the following sentences.
295. a) Aneuk pyaitxji-tulak si Amin.
**———' •___________„__
Child that 3y-push title Amin
That child pushed Amin.'
b) Si Amirt_ji-tulak le aneuk nyan.
e» • • • • • • • • a «-«>•*_!
Title Amin 3y-push by child that
'Amin was pushed by that child.'
2) The agent in a passive sentence is placed in an
agent phrase, which is the le-phrase (=by-phrase), as le
aneuk nyan 'by that child' in (b) above. This agent phrase