Re: [tied] Re: Middle Voice

On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 08:29:59 +0000, tgpedersen
<tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>
>> In Sinhalese, the middle is expressed by a special verbal
>> form, and the subject is in the dative:
>>
>> mam& vatur& bivva (I+NOM water drank+ACTIVE)
>> mat.& vatur& pevuna (I+DAT water drank+MIDDLE)
>>
>> In the second phrase, the subject is not in control ("I
>> accidentally swallowed water").
>>
>
>Interesting. That matches Alscher's ideas of matching dative (*-ei)
>and middle (*-oi). What's the IE and Old Indic history of the latter
>construction?

I don't know.

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