In the paper, the authors focus on the academic use of the passive voice, a verbal form that has often been declared inappropriate for Slovene. The analysis is limited to the passive participle and to six syntactic patterns defined in the Slovene grammar, and is performed on two corpora: the Kas corpus of academic texts and the Kres corpus, the general corpus of Slovene. The results of the analyses confirm that the passive voice is used in academic texts to a larger extent (primarily in the present tense), but also show that passive voice patterns are used with a relatively smaller set of lexical items than in Kres.
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