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Re: Middle voice

From:Trebor Jung <treborjung@...>
Date:Sunday, October 10, 2004, 14:17
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"I have a question about the middle voice: Can a sentence like this:
a'eb-u-n de'o-b* a'ej-a-m i'ik.
Peace-[singular definite]-patient love(like,want)-[general perspective]*
man(human,animal)-[plural definite]-agent honorable.
*:The stem of de'o is o'ed. Since it is a verb, it was inversed (do'e) and,
since it is in the middle voice, inversed again(de'o).

"be translated as:
The honorable men love peace for their own benefit/for themselves.
Or is this interpretation wrong?"

Here's a middle voice sentence:

The caserole cooked in the oven.

where the subject is inanimate-- cf.

I cooked the caserole.

Your sentence above is active.

BTW, what do all those apostrophes mean?
Trebor