----- Original Message -----
From: "Isidora Zamora" <isidora@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 5:51 PM
Subject: Re: A Survey
> At 11:41 PM 9/29/03 -0400, you wrote:
> >I'm curious to see everyone's answers to the following questions:
> >
> >1. Does your language(s) distinguish between active ("X breaks Y"),
middle
> >("X breaks (apart)"), and passive ("X is broken (by Y)")?
>
> Is *that* what the "middle voice" is? I've been wondering for years and
> years what a middle voice was, ever since I heard that there was something
> called a middle voice in Greek, but I've never met anyone who could
explain
> it to me.
To use an example from a while ago(Optional bits in brackets):
Active - Robert cooks (the soup).
Middle - The soup cooks.
Passive - The soup is being cooked (by Robert).
> Isidora
>