Mk 3.5 ~ Middle Voice

Moon-Ryul Jung moon at saint.soongsil.ac.kr
Wed Apr 14 19:20:49 EDT 1999


George,
thanks for your comments.

You wrote:
> I had a hard time with it for a long 
> time!  Until I discovered its potential for being viewed as the 
> "inner" voice of the verb.  The active directs the action outward, and 
> the passive receives the action from without, and the middle is simply 

> the actor acting from within him/her self

Do you mean by it what Carl said about the middle voice,
"it describes self-projection or self-involving actions"?

Moon-Ryul Jung
Assistant Professor
Dept of Computer Science
Soongsil University
Seoul, Korea



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