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Barber 1975 on Voice in Ancient Greek
Posted: March 17th, 2014, 12:50 pm
by Stephen Carlson
The Procedings of the Berkeley Linguistics Society has an article back in 1975 about the Greek voice system by an E. Barber:
http://elanguage.net/journals/bls/article/view/1998
Re: Barber 1975 on Voice in Ancient Greek
Posted: March 18th, 2014, 6:02 am
by cwconrad
While Barber recognizes that the middle in Greek is fundamentally marking subject-affectedness, his failure to bring "deponents" (a.k.a. media tantrum, passiva tantrum) into consideration undercuts some significant points that he does make (e.g. that the Greek active inflection is a sort of catch-all for verbs not marked for subject-affectedness, that the Greek middle marking subject-affectedness comprises both reflexivity and passivity in a common form. Kemmer and Allan have gone far, far beyond that.
Re: Barber 1975 on Voice in Ancient Greek
Posted: March 18th, 2014, 12:24 pm
by Stephen Carlson
It's a 10-page article form 1975, not a recent monograph. Of course, it will be less comprehensive. But it seems short and clear enough to give to students to read and use as a jumping off point to explain deponents as middles.