
Conlangery #58: Practicum — Things you can do with the Middle Voice
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What Does a Middle Mean?
William: If it doesn't fit in a colony or a conbee we throw it in the middle. Which will cover a different semantic space for every language. The next thing that's very common is verbs of grooming and body motion are very frequently participate in middle morphology whether that's a reflexive or whatnot. Other class of verbs that might take middle marking is natural reciprocals. Those are actions that necessarily involve two people things like hug and the kiss for example or fight right so in Greek the verb for for people who are fighting is the middle makkumai you know makkumsi they're fighting.
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