Re: Perfect mood

On Nov 30, 7:43 am, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Is "causative" generally taken as a "voice"?

Generally, no. It's only called that by me. I was surprised that
someone (Helmut) seemed to believe the descripion might be useful.

_Morphologically_, causative and passive (and intensive and reciprocal)
are parallel in Semitic, but is "voice" normally used as a label for a
_morphological_ or a _syntactic_ category?

I don't understand what you mean.

My use of the term "voice" was just an attempt to use a familiar term
to translate the Hebrew term "binyan", just as some people use the
terms "gender" and "number", rather than "class", to describe Swahili.

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Stefano
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