Questions tagged [middle-voice]
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Did the use of the middle with the semantics of the passive continue as late as koine?
My understanding of the history is that PIE had active and middle voices, while the passive was a later innovation. Therefore it seems that in the early language as preserved in Homer, we see the ...
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Anticausative/Mediopassive constructions in perfect form?
I was wondering what is the correct analysis/interpretation of exstincta sunt in the following text from Cicero:
quarum rerum recordatio et memoria si una cum illo occidisset, desiderium ...
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