What is it about?
The middle voice is still not well understood, this paper tries to answer the question "what is the middle voice?" with insights from English and Romanian middles (and non-middles).
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Why is it important?
The middle voice has to do with the event (action) not so much with the participants involved in it.
Perspectives
This paper has helped me shape my own understanding of what is (and what it not) middle and how to classify cumbersome examples.
Dr Andreea S Calude
University of Waikato
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This page is a summary of: Testing the boundaries of the middle voice: Observations from English and Romanian, Cognitive Linguistics, January 2017, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/cog-2016-0046.
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