Abstract
The Main Participant of the Event as Focus in “Long” Passive Sentences in Present Day English This paper deals with the focalization of the supplementary argument in long passives as a way of capturing the hearer’s attention. The fact that there is a by-phrase in the utterance does not imply that the supplementary argument is always focalized ; it can simply be considered relevant by the speaker. The purpose of the study is to find out more about the details of the constraints affecting focalization from an enunciative point of view. The by-phrase NP will be focalized when it has a sufficient degree of notional and enunciative determinacy especially when it refers to an Agent.
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