PGET GET-passives

Definition

Passive constructions using “get” instead of “be”.

Detection Rules

Get-passive: past participle of get + past participle.

cql[lemma="get" & pos="VBN"] []* [pos="VBN"]

Requires: lemma, pos

Normalization

Per finite_verbs

Examples

he got caught

they got elected

Sources

  • mfte — Le Foll, Elen & Shakir, Muhammad (2023/2025) : Multi-Feature Tagger of English (MFTE) — Python version

Notes

More colloquial than BE-passives; relevant to speech registers.

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