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Approaching the middle voice from the perspective of typology and language universals research, this text aims to provide a typologically valid characterization of the category of middle voice in terms of which it can be incorporated into a cognitively-based theory of human language. The term middle voice has had a wide range of applications in the linguistic literature of this century. The main thesis in this volume is that there is a coherent, though complex, semantic category of middle voice in human language, which receives grammatical instantiation in many languages. The author claims that there is a semantic property crucial to the nature of the middle, which she terms relative elaboration of events , that serves as a parameter along which the reflexive and the middle can be situated as semantic categories intermediate in transitivity between one-participant and two-participant events, and which differentiates reflexive and middle from one another.

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