\documentclass[a4paper,twocolumn]{article} \usepackage[top=2cm]{geometry} \usepackage[british]{babel} \usepackage{stfloats} \usepackage{handouts} \usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref} \usepackage{tikz} \usepackage[font=small]{caption} \title{\Large Handout of ``The Middle Voice''\footnote{Suzanne Kemmer (1993).}} \author{Camil Staps} \newcommand{\RM}[0]{\textsc{rm}} \begin{document} \maketitle \subsection*{Reflexive and Associated Middle Situation Types} \summary{ \subsubsection*{The direct reflexive} According to Faltz (1977), the archetypal semantically reflexive context is a simple two-participant clause where one participant is Agent or Experiencer and the other a Patient, while both refer to the same entity\pagenr{42}. This is the semantic prototype, since whenever a language marks coreference in other situtations, it also does in this situation\pagenr{43}. This reflexive is called the \term{direct reflexive}. It is defined by \term{coreference}, narrowed down by \term{scope}\note{only simple clauses} and \term{thematic roles}\note{Agent/Experiencer and Patient (Faltz)/Stimulus(Kemmer)}. A \term{reflexive marker} (\RM) is ``a productive grammatical device that is used obligatorily to mark direct reflexive contexts in at least the third person''\pagenr{47}. All reflexive-marking languages use {\RM}s in the direct reflexive, which is a second indicator that this is the semantic reflexive prototype. The direct reflexive is a special case of a \term{two-participant event}. The prototypical two-participant event has a human Agent act volitionally, exerting physical force on an inanimate definite Patient, which is directly affected by that event\pagenr{50}. \parnote{This definition can be easily extended to include mental state- and perception-verbs, using Experiencer/Stimulus terminology and/or the Initiator/Endpoint macroroles\pagenr{51}.} \subsubsection*{Body action middles} \term{Grooming actions} often have different markings than reflexive verbs, so they are not a subset of the reflexive situation type\pagenr{54}. \term{Changes in body posture}\note{stand (up); sit (down); lie (down)} often appear as bare intransitives and therefore cannot be seen as direct reflexives either\pagenr{55}. Also \term{nontranslational motion} verbs\note{turn, twist, bend (e.g. one's head)} are often expressed using middle forms\pagenr{56}, as are verbs of \term{translational motion}\note{fly, flee, run, etc.}\pagenr{57}. } \end{document}