Re: A Survey
| From: | Isidora Zamora <isidora@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, September 30, 2003, 16:51 |
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At 11:41 PM 9/29/03 -0400, you wrote:
>I'm curious to see everyone's answers to the following questions:
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>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.
Isidora
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