Re: A Survey
| From: | Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, October 1, 2003, 6:55 |
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On Tuesday, September 30, 2003, at 05:51 , Isidora Zamora wrote:
> 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?
Yep - where Romances languages would use a reflexive: "X se casse"
> 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.
It's essentially the same as the reflexive forms in modern Romance
languages
and covers the same semantic areas.
Ray
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