Editing Passive voice (section)

==Adversative passive==
In some languages, including several Southeast Asian languages, the passive voice is sometimes used to indicate that an action or event was unpleasant or undesirable.<ref name=Kroeger/> This so-called ''adversative passive'' works like the ordinary passive voice in terms of syntactic structure&mdash;that is, a theme or instrument acts as subject. In addition, the construction indicates adversative [[Affect (linguistics)|affect]], suggesting that someone was negatively affected.

In [[Japanese language|Japanese]], for example, the adversative passive (also called indirect passive) indicates adversative affect. The indirect or adversative passive has the same form as the direct passive. Unlike the direct passive, the indirect passive may be used with intransitive verbs.<ref name=Tsujimura>{{cite book|last=Tsujimura |first=Natsuko |year=1996 |title=An Introduction to Japanese Linguistics|location=Oxford |publisher=Blackwell |isbn=978-0-631-19855-0}}</ref>
{{fs interlinear|indent=3|lang = ja
|花子が 隣の 学生に ピアノを 朝まで 弾かれた。
|Hanako-ga tonari-no gakusei-ni piano-o asa-made hika-re-ta.
|Hanako-NOM neighbor-GEN student-DAT piano-ACC morning-until played-PASS-PFV
|"Hanako was adversely affected by the neighboring student playing the piano until morning."<ref name=Tsujimura/>}}

[[Central Alaskan Yup'ik language|Yup'ik]], from the [[Eskimo–Aleut languages|Eskimo–Aleut]] family, has two different suffixes that can indicate passive, ''-cir-'' and ''-ma-''. The morpheme ''-cir-'' has an adversative meaning. If an agent is included in a passive sentence with the ''-cir'' passive, the noun is usually in the [[Allative case|allative]] (oblique) case.<ref name=Mithun>{{cite book|last=Mithun|first=Marianne|year=2000|chapter=Valency-changing derivation in Central Alaskan Yup'ik|editor=R.M.W. Dixon |editor2=Alexendra Aikhenvald|title=Changing Valency: Case Studies in Transitivity|url=https://archive.org/details/changingvalencyc00dixo|url-access=limited|publisher=Cambridge University Press|page=[https://archive.org/details/changingvalencyc00dixo/page/n106 90]|isbn=9780521660396}}</ref>
{{interlinear|indent=3|lang=esu
|top={{lang|esu|neqerrluk yuku'''cir'''tuq}}
|neqe-rrluk yuku-'''cir'''-tu-q
|fish-departed.from.natural.state be.moldy-'''get'''-IND.INTR-3sg
|"That beautiful piece of dry fish '''got''' moldy."<ref name=Mithun/>}}