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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:

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>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