FW: Re: SFRAGIZW: middle or passive?

waldo slusher waldoslusher at yahoo.com
Mon Oct 21 09:55:57 EDT 2002


Iver

> If I say "How can I make myself understood", I see
> this as a grammatical
> surface derivation based on two underlying semantic
> propositions: 1) What
> can I do/say/write? and 2) so that (people)
> understand me.
> The first is active, the second becomes passive in
> the surface form - so
> that I be understood - when the agent is suppressed.


How do you distinguish an Active Voice with an
Intransitive Verb, with a Middle Voice?


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Waldo Slusher
Calgary, AL

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