Re: [romanceconlang] Passives

From: Christophe Grandsire (christophe.grandsire@free.fr)
Date: Fri May 02 2003 - 21:45:47 EST


En réponse à Adam Walker :

>And there are the passive uses of the reflexive in
>
>Spanish
>Sardinian
>Romanian
>
>And the use of "on" in French.

For what is worth, French also has the passive use of the reflexive (or
rather medio-passive use of the reflexive).

>What other ways are lurking out there? Which methods
>have you used in your langs? How does Arabic do it?

IIRC it has special conjugations for it, with different vowel patterns. But
I can't remember exactly how it works.

Christophe Grandsire.

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