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Re: THEORY: Verb voice

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Date:Monday, May 3, 1999, 19:47
Dans un courrier dat=E9 du 03/05/99 08:21:37  , vous avez =E9crit :

<< I don''t know for sure if the example I've encountered really is a voice. =
I
 haven't found it in other natlangs or conlangs, it is called 'Non-control'
 and I found in Sechelt (Salishan):
 k0u-St-la-waL-L@m-n@x-am  'now we have forgotten it (and there was nothing
 we could do about it)'.
 IRR-1PL-now-forget-NON_CNTRL-1PL >>

There are lots of items that may be stuck (in)to voices like control,=20
volition, etc., regarless it's already implied in the meaning of the verb.

Mathias