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		   The Semantics of the Middle Voice

			Edit Doron, HUJI & UCSC
			  doron@ling.ucsc.edu

			Monday, October 19, 7 PM

		  Linguistics Common Room (Stevenson 249)
				UCSC

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Abstract:

The Middle Voice gives rise to intransitive verbs, some of which are 
unergative (wash) while others are unaccusative (break). What they have
in common, according to Chierchia 1989, is reflexivity, and what 
distinguishes them, according to Reinhart 1996 and Simmons 1996, is
agentivity. The Semitic morphological system reveals the different
entailments associated with causers and agents, and, in particular, the
association of the middle voice with the reflexivization of agentives. 


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