
Conlangery #58: Practicum — Things you can do with the Middle Voice
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Once you've got a middle all sorts of weirdness can follow from that for example yes some verbs may only ever occur in the middle aha so this is very common ancient greek somali fofolde. There may well be verbs in romance languages that are only ever used alone they're only used with reflexives mm-hmm there areYeah right um so even though you have this middle morphology might still behave transitively in argument structureOkay we'll do English linguistics after the show and then just for for insanity sake GREEK has a rather mysterious thing where certain verbs that are active in the present and all of their tenses except for some reason always have to
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