(To Carl) Two routes to the passive voice

Moon-Ryul Jung moon at saint.soongsil.ac.kr
Fri Apr 16 22:51:34 EDT 1999


Carl,

the recent discussion of the middle voice on the list made me go back
to what you wrote about it. Re-reading them prompted me to ask 
questions which did not occur to me.

1) The future and aorist tenses have both the middle and the passive 
forms,
and the other tenses have only the middle/reflexive forms. Have you 
thought
of why only the future and aorist tenses have both the middle AND the 
passive?

2) It is always true that the second aorist has both the active
and the passive form, while the third aorist has only the active
form which can be coerced into the passive?

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



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