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Conlangery #58: Practicum — Things you can do with the Middle Voice

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Is There a Middle Vocabulary in Greek?

Greek has an entirely separate system of conjugation for the middle okay that's okay in ancient Greek unlike a romance language so you're my means I wash myself it means what in English we would just say I wash. It's very sensitive to transitivity but has no no need to overtly mention a direct object on a verb that's already active and transitive. That's something that I feel like you could kind of free up with a middle voice in in certain certain circumstances, right? You know because you're making this middle meaning very obvious with morphology or syntax or something then you can just leave objects implicit and not have confusion right yeah I guess I didn't see that. Do you know

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