a strategy that is marginal for the passive–inverse voice construction in which there is a distinct, overt - flag of higher animacy / higher information status – that is, higher- salience – Ps. Example: in Spanish, El director busca a un empleado 'The director is looking for a [specific] clerk', the phrase un empleado 'a clerk', referring to the P participant, uses the overt flag a. Differential object marking is not usually considered a strategy of the passive–inverse construction because the A - participant is not reduced in salience, although the P participant is higher in salience. (Section 8.3)