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

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What's the Difference Between Experience and Reflexive Middle?

In spanish there's a rather bizarre thing going on with certain emotion verbs where yes all that mm-hmm you um basically it's agreement with the patient kind of thing. The romance languages especially in the northern sphere are infamous for having indirect constructions so what in english we would think of as the subject is actually in the date  and I'm starting to melt down thinking about how dated experiencers work with reflexive middles, he says.

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