Re: Middle voice

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Carlos Thompson wrote:

>  a) Vendemos esta fruta en el mercado.
>  b) Esta fruta es vendida en el mercado (por nosotros).
>  c) Esta fruta se vende bien en el mercado.
>
>  a) Drenamos rapido estos campos.
>  b) Estos campos fueron rapidamente drenados
>  c) Estos campos se drenan rapido.
>
>Is the reflexive construccisn, we use in Spanish as pasive, actually a
>middle voice?
I was thinking about that -- especially remembering we were talking =
about unergatives and unaccusatives some time ago. If this is not a =
middle voice, I don't know what a middle voice is.

It must be something, because it's clearly not a common reflexive =
construction (it is, gramatically, but not semantically), but a type =
called pseudoreflexive. It's not active voice (fruit does not sell =
anything) and not passive voice (fruit isn't said to be sold be =
anybody).

--Pablo Flores
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