Abstract
To denote an agent in any passivoid construction in modern literary Ukrainian there is no choice but to employ the bare instrumental. Historically however, Middle Ukrainian allowed for more syntactic variation within the realm of oblique subjects. The present contribution deals with the productivity of such agent expressions throughout the course of the Middle Ukrainian period and their distribution across the different text types in canonical passives, participial passives and in -no / -to structures with a direct object complement. This investigation is based on a medium-sized corpus of Middle Ukrainian texts compiled from the electronic resources available on izbornyk.org.ua.
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