Talk:diathesis

diathesis v. voice
, I do not know what grammars of other languages say... But at least for greek, 'voice' is just a set of morphological package of endings. It says nothing about meaning. Unfortunately these 'sets of conjugating forms' are called 'active' or 'passive' (for ancient greek, also: 'middle'. διάθεσις on the other hand, says nothing about the forms. It is about 'disposition', meaning: Unfortunately its styles are also called 'active' (I dress someone) 'passive' (I am dresseδ by someone else), 'middle' (I am dressed by myself) or 'neutral' (I sleep: there is no action). So, we have all kinds of combinations: voiceforms & diathesis. Confusion arises because mostly passive forms are indeed of passive diathesis too. The wikipedia Diathesis leads to grammatical 'Voice'. There is also the article w:Diathesis alternation and Διάθεση (γραμματική). Thank you. &#8209;&#8209;Sarri.greek &#9835; | 02:54, 5 May 2020 (UTC)