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Conlangery #25: Grammatical Voice

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The Difference Between Active and Dynamic Passive in Ancient Greek

The distinction between state of and dynamic passive is interesting because some languages like I think Vietnamese has multiple kinds of passives. You have one passive that just is sort of normal something happened to you and we don't care about the agent. And another implies that the experiencer of this incident is badly affected by things. That's very interesting because I've been wondering whether I need, in my case, an anti-passive or any kind of actual other alternate voice in Iurillo. The thing that gets called the media passive in Greek never ever, ever means a passive until you give it an oblique agent. So it doesn't have one.

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