Re: Final voicing (3)

That should work but Medio-passive should also include
reflexive where the subject and the object are the
same.

--- afyangh <fournet.arnaud@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan"
> <proto-language@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > My own hypothesis is that, in the language from
> which PIE is
> derived, there was a word *T?SA, which meant 'body';
> and from this,
> the middle (actually reflexive) endings in -*dh in
> IE are derived.
> >
> > Patrick
> ========
> Arnaud
> As far as I understand active versus medio-passive,
> active means that the (grammatical) subject is
> (thought to be) in
> control of the process (described by the verb).
> medio-passive means that the (grammatical) subject
> does not control
> the process but takes part in that process as a kind
> of instrument,
> not as a kind of cause or agent :
> hence to get born, to flow, day-break occurs etc are
> medio-passive.
>
> Arnaud
>
>

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