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From: alderson@netcom.com (Richard M. Alderson III)
Subject: Re: English verb tenses
In-Reply-To: Paul Sampson's message of 21 Mar 1995 16:19:54 GMT
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In article <3kmuba$q36@marble.Britain.EU.net> Paul Sampson
<paul.sampson@octacon.co.uk> writes:

>And are there any modern languages which still use a middle voice (other than
>reflexive)? I believe there may be one in Ethiopia, but I've forgotten its
>name.

In an earlier followup to this, I stated that I thought that Modern Greek still
had a mediopassive voice, with middle as well as passive meaning.

I have since checked a brief grammar of Dhemotiki, and am happy to report that
the mediopassive is alive and well.
-- 
Rich Alderson		[Tolkien quote temporarily removed in favour of
alderson@netcom.com	 proselytizing comment below --rma]

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