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Aga.nd Posted 19 years ago
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The sentence “these shirts wash easily”.



The sentence “these shirts wash easily” are often referred to as:

anti-passive

ergative

middle

passive

I think that this is middle voice, but another options can be possible as well. What do you think?


  

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imo the best description is middle voice: syntatically active but semantically passive. html

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imo the best description is middle voice: syntatically active but semantically passive.
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003302.html
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Aga.nd

The sentence “these shirts wash easily” are often referred to as:

anti-passive

ergative

middle

passive

I think that this is middle voice, but another options can be possible as well. What do you think?



middle
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