Re: Passive and active....

> So, how do all of your languages handle active and passive voice, if at
> all?
I have this bias towards agglutinating a passive marker. (Swedish : -s,
Finnish: -taan, -tiin, -ttu/-tty, ... ...) (these langs are, for those who
might
wonder, my native langs)

My first "serious" project (as opposite to those languages that never go
beyond an idea, a simple basic phonology, and some neat grammatical
"device") has "inactive voice", which makes any verb-argument unmarked, and
unfocused (both word order-relationsships and case markings are dropped.
Even genitives may be generalized to normal "null"-verb arguments)
If anyone has got any better name to this voice, let it be heard!

Sometimes I let the voice also play some other role, though I haven't
completed any language with that yet.

An example would be my native (Swedish) dialect, where the passive -s
often is used as an aspect or mood("habitual" I think it's called).
(still it's passive, so whenever we use this aspect/mood, we must do a
passive construction (unless, of course it's an intransitive verb).)


        -- M i e k k o