Re: A Survey
| From: | Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, September 30, 2003, 23:31 |
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--- Rob Haden <magwich78@...> wrote:
> >Active - Robert cooks (the soup).
> >Middle - The soup cooks.
> >Passive - The soup is being cooked (by
> >Robert).
>
> It seems to me that the Middle and Passive
> examples are more closely
> related to each other than either are to the
> Active.
That's often the way of it. In IE languages, the
passive developed from the middle, for example.
> Is it possible/a good
> idea to have simply an active vs. medio-passive
> distinction?
Talarian has an Active-Middle distinction. I'm
not sure how passives are constructed, or even if
they can be constructed.
Padraic.
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