Re: THEORY: Verb voice

Tom Wier wrote:
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> I was just wondering something:  exactly how many possible
> verbal voices are there?  Off hand I can think of about four:
> active, passive, middle (action redounds back onto oneself,
> for one's own benefit; indirect), and reflexive (action was
> intended to affect oneself directly).   What others could
> there be?
Reciprocative ("each other"), antipassive (the ergative version of
passive; makes an ergative into an absolutive).  I have something I call
a voice, I don't know if that would be the proper term, in Waty=E1=EDsa,
which I term the Dative-Object Voice, which turns the indirect object
into the object; that is, dative to absolutive.  I call it a voice
because it seems analogous to the antipassive, which makes *ergative*
into absolutive.

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