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Re-conceiving the middle voice for Greek and Latin students (VI)

Well, I hope by this point, I’ve done a few things: 1. Convinced you that Greek has an active v. middle voice system, in which the middle domain covers a range of different categories, all generally united by ‘subject affectedness’ 2. Convinced you that ‘deponency’ is not a useful

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Re-conceiving the middle voice for Greek and Latin students (V)

So, about Latin then All through this series (one, two, three, four) I’ve been careful to include Latin examples of the various semantic categories covered. That’s because I’ve often wondered about Latin – does it really have deponent verbs? The answer is, it’s complicated. It’s complicated

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Re-conceiving the middle voice for Greek and Latin students (IV)

We’ve spoken so far about a range of various 'middle-domain' events and actions, and in this post I focus in on our final group, related to Spontaneous Processes and Passive-Middles (See posts one, two, and three to get up to speed. All this work derives

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Re-conceiving the middle voice for Greek and Latin students (III)

We’ve spoken so far about direct reflexives, and grooming actions, and three categories of body-action middles, including changes in body posture, non-translational motion, and translational motion. (See posts one and two to get up to speed. All this work derives primarily from Suzanne Kemmer and Rutger Allan,

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Re-conceiving the middle voice for Greek and Latin students (II)

In today’s post, following on from the last, I’m going to walk through some initial semantic categories which Kemmer presents as mostly or typically used for middle-type situations. I had hoped to get through more categories, but it seems that will need a couple more posts. I’