Comments on Re: Help on Verbs...
| From: | Doug Ball <db001i@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, October 27, 1999, 19:55 |
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Thanks for all who made comments on my verbs basics post. I learned a lot.
Charles wrote:
>Excellent! -- I wish you'd write a whole series of tutorials like this one.
If there's a need, I'd gladly provide it, but probably not all parts of
speech at the same time. If I was going to do such an endeavor, are there
particular parts of speech you would like? I wish I had a website to just
post several tutorials, but unfortunately I don't, but perhaps there are
sites on the web that detail grammatical concepts like that.
Ed wrote:
> I think Ray explained once that "middle voice" is a name for a particular
Indo-European >morphological category, not a cross-linguistic descriptive
term. So its meaning is idiosyncratic to >the Indo-European language family
(it survived in particular in Greek, and perhaps in a few others --
>Sansrkit? I'm not sure).
Sorry to have missed that discussion, but I've only subscribed for about a
month and an half.
[Some paragraphs snipped]
> (To further complicate the issue there are "deponent" verbs which are middle
or occasionally >passive in form but have only active meanings... And some
verbs are deponent only in certain >tenses!...)
Funny you should mention those. We learned about them in Greek class today.
Thanks to all again,
Doug
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<TT>Thanks for all who made comments on my verbs basics post. I learn=
ed a lot.<BR>
<BR>
Charles wrote:<BR>
>Excellent! -- I wish you'd write a whole series of tutorials like this =
one.<BR>
<BR>
If there's a need, I'd gladly provide it, but probably not all parts of spe=
ech at the same time. If I was going to do such an endeavor, are there parti=
cular parts of speech you would like? I wish I had a website to just p=
ost several tutorials, but unfortunately I don't, but perhaps there are site=
s on the web that detail grammatical concepts like that. <BR>
<BR>
<BR>
Ed wrote:<BR>
> I think Ray explained once that "middle voice" is a name for=
a particular Indo-European >morphological category, not a cross-li=
nguistic descriptive term. So its meaning is idiosyncratic to >the =
Indo-European language family (it survived in particular in Greek, and perha=
ps in a few others -- >Sansrkit? I'm not sure).<BR>
<BR>
Sorry to have missed that discussion, but I've only subscribed for about a =
month and an half.<BR>
<BR>
[Some paragraphs snipped]<BR>
> (To further complicate the issue there are "deponent" verbs =
which are middle or occasionally >passive in form but have only active me=
anings... And some verbs are deponent only in certain >tenses!...)<BR>
<BR>
Funny you should mention those. We learned about them in Greek class =
today.<BR>
<BR>
Thanks to all again,<BR>
Doug <BR>
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