Talk:Mediopassive voice

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The mediopassive voice is a grammatical voice in which the actor of a stative verb is not expressed. This is a special type of passive voice, which is the general phenomena of the actor of a verb not being expressed.

Is just plain wrong. Benwing 06:14, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

-tur is the THIRD person!


"Classical Armenian had a mediopassive form which was marked by changing the verb's thematic vowel instead of with a unique conjugation like in other Indo-European languages." What does this mean? Isn't changing the verb's thematic vowel just one way of constructing forms inside a conjugation? And does Armenian only do this with verbs with thematic inflections (which sounds a bit weird off-hand to me), or does Armenian only have thematic verbs?Bantaar (talk) 22:05, 25 December 2007 (UTC)