Abstract
The present paper contributes to the study of passivization of ditransitive complementation from the FSP point of view. The analysis has verified the assumption that in most instances the sentence is perspectived away from the subject and constitutes the quality scale.
Nevertheless, the analysis has demonstrated that even ditransitive verbs in the passive may perform the presentative function. For a verb to perform the presentative function the subject must be context-independent, as it introduces a new phenomenon into discourse; the verb has the Pr-function and the Oi, which is the goal of the action, represents the Setting.
In all presentation sentences the by-agent was not expressed; thus, a new phenomenon appears on the scene through some unexpressed external agency. Besides FSP, the paper has identified a further factor that might play a role in the selection of the passive, semantics of the verb and the indirect object.
The analysis has shown that the verb of obtaining buy, whose indirect object has the semantic role of beneficiary, clearly prefers the second passive, while the verb of future not having deny, whose indirect object has the semantic role of malefactive, tends to take the second passive. Attention is also paid to object deletion, which has been identified as an additional factor in the selection of passive.