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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; margin-left: 0px; "><span lang="EN-US">Dear Diego,</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; margin-left: 0px; "><span lang="EN-US">For Proto Indo-European, the reconstructed person endings of the Perfect closely resemble those of the Middle voice and it has been speculated that they once formed a single paradigm. If interested you may want to have a look at Forston, B. 2004. Indo-European Language and Culture. Blackwell, who nicely summarizes a long discussion to a couple of interesting facts. I would be very much interested to read about what you mentioned as "<span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">While it is not difficult to trace the likely semantic reanalysis underlying this change", for most people still working with Indo-European are still puzzled by this.</span></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; margin-left: 0px; "><span lang="EN-US">Best,</span></p></span><br><font class="EC_Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Enrique L. Palancar</font><br><b><font style="" color="#1f497d"><span class="EC_EC_Apple-style-span" style="font-weight:normal"><span class="EC_EC_Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration:underline">www.enriquepalancar.weebly.com</span></span><br></font></b>Docente-Investigador<br>Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro<br>Cerro de las Campanas s/n<br>Querétaro 76010<br>Querétaro, México<br>Tel. (52) 442.192.12.00/Ext. 6113/6116<br><br><br><br><br><br><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 18:02:03 -0600<br>From: jquesad@UNA.AC.CR<br>Subject: Channel PERFECTIVE > MIDDLE<br>To: LINGTYP@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG<br><br>
<font size="2">Dear colleagues,</font><BR>
<font size="2">Does anyone know of a language in which the (former) marker of perfective aspect became a marker of middle voice? In Bocotá, a language of Panama, the marker -<em>du </em>has been described as a marker of perfective aspect (Gunn 1975), while in Buglere, a dialect of Bocotá, spoken in Southwestern Panama and Costa Rica, it clearly behaves as a marker of middle voice. While it is not difficult to trace the likely semantic reanalysis underlying this change, I would like to know if this has been attested elsewhere.</font><BR>
<font size="2">Thanks<span lang="ES-CR" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"> </span></font><BR>
<font size="2"><span lang="ES-CR" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:">Diego</span></font><BR>
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<br>Prof. Dr. J. Diego Quesada
<br>Escuela de Literatura y Ciencias del Lenguaje
<br>Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
<br>Universidad Nacional
<br>3000 Heredia, COSTA RICA
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