Re: Middle voice of intransitive?
From: | Alex Fink <000024@...> |
Date: | Sunday, September 28, 2008, 6:59 |
On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 12:06:21 -0400, evan robert <evanm@...> wrote:
[...]
>The archetypal (b) is the verb (isthmi, "to stand", where as an active it
is causative "to make stand" and as middle it is "to stand".
[...]
An off-topic comment, but I was thrown by your use of _h_ in romanisation on
both the aspirated stops and for eta. Your tau-eta in _isthmi_ looked
especially like a theta on first reading, for instance (and this coulda been
a form of "isthmus" for all I know).
Alex