The Extension of a Linguistic Category: Middle Voice in Homeric Greek between Subject Affectedness, Reflexivity and Possession

• Autores: Domenica Romagno
• Localización: Archivio glottologico italiano, ISSN 0004-0207, Vol. 106, Nº. 1, 2021
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper addresses the function of the transitive middle in ancient Greek, with the aim of providing an answer to the following question: what is the relationship between the unaccusative middle and the twoargument manifestations of the category? The results of a study on Homeric poems are reported and a pattern of extension of the middle is proposed to account for the various types of transitive middle in a unitary model, that is consistent with the prototypical and archetypical function of the Indo-European middle