Re: Is this a passive?

 --- Roger Mills wrote:
> Estel Telcontar wrote:
>
>
> > I have a morpheme in mind for one of my languages, and I'm
> wondering if
> > it counts as a passive.  As far as I understand, passive normally
> >
> > (1) promotes the direct object to subject
> > (2) a. deletes the subject
> >  OR
> >     b. demotes the subject to an oblique
> >
> > The morpheme I'm thinking of is okay on (1) and (2)a. :
> > The original direct object becomes the subject,
> > and the original subject can be omitted.
> > It's in (2)b. that the question comes in: if the original
> > subject is still expressed, it is expressed as a direct object,
> > not as an oblique.
> >
> Hmm, sound like it could be confusing (maybe more in case of a fast
> reader)........
> Petrus amat Mariam.
> Maria amatur.
> Maria amatur Petrum
>
> Must it be in the DO case?
There are only two cases, essentially nominative and accusative.

I COULD make it that the original subject can never be expressed in a
"passive", but I'm not sure what other repercussions that would have in
my language that I don't want.

Estel

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