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The IE Middle Voice: A Study in Syntactic Strategy and Syntactic Change.
Barber, Elizabeth – 1977
The active/passive system of English grew out of a Proto-Indo-European (PIE) system where the fundamental distinction was between active and middle voices. The middle voice included within its functions the relationship that now would be known as passive. The PIE voice system is preserved in ancient Greek and Sanskrit, and in the former, the…
Descriptors: Classical Languages, Communication (Thought Transfer), Diachronic Linguistics, English