
Conlangery #58: Practicum — Things you can do with the Middle Voice
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What's a Middle Voice?
A middle might have a very specific meaning in this or that language but it's by no you can't assume that what's a middle in one language will work for middles in another. I think also that might be referring to what you might call reflexive might be morphologically speaking but using middle voice might be naming the same beast something different from different act. Because it's a conjugation instead of that could be true. Yeah, thanks to the long history of the ancient Greek grammatical tradition this terminology of the middle reaches us in the modern world and we find something that’s not active not a passives so we call it a middle when it doesn't look like a
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