Plain Middle Voice ( Concept )
http://purl.org/linguistics/gold/PlainMiddleVoice


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      |_ Abstract
            |_ Linguistic Property
                  |_ Morphosyntactic Property
                        |_ Voice Property
                              |_ Plain Middle Voice

Definition:

Results of action occur to subject [Siewierska 1988: 257].



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Language Code: fuv In Nigerian, the middle voice is associated with reflexivity and with borrowed verbal roots that would be semantically more compatible with ActiveVoice.
2009-06-04 13:28:08
a-ronnd-aake
2-load-MID
You put a head- load on yourself.

References:
McIntosh (1984:109)


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