Comparative Concept: middle voice (str)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
middle voice (str)
| Typ | strategy (def) |
|---|---|
| Alias(se) | middle voice |
| Assoziiert | |
| Spraakbanken | middle voice (str) |
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Definition
a strategy for the intransitive construction that recruits a reflexive or reciprocal construction, for the expression of a subset of monovalent events. Example: Ancient Greek pete-sthai 'fly' is an example of a middle voice form, using the suffix -sthai. The middle voice construction may be a more grammaticalized form of the original construction. (Section 7.2)