Grammatical voices Grammatical voices The antipassive voice is a verb voice found mostly in ergative languages. Like the passive voice, the antipassive decreases the verb's valency by one. ...more on Wikipedia about "Antipassive voice"
The applicative voice is a grammatical voice which promotes an oblique argument of a verb to the (core) patient argument, and indicates the oblique role within the meaning of the verb. When the applicative voice is applied to a verb, its valency may be increased by one, and intransitive verbs may be converted to transitive verbs. For example, in Yagua "He blows into it" may be expressed as saduu ráviimú, where saduu is "blow" with a third person subject, and ráviimú is an oblique meaning "into an inanimate object." Expressed with an applicative it is saduutára, where ta is a locative applicative and the locative oblique is no longer present. The verb indicates both the agent as before and adds a patient/object through ra; the verb is thus now a transitive one. Applicative constructions are found in various languages, particularly highly agglutinative languages, such as Nuxalk, Ubykh and Bemba. ...more on Wikipedia about "Applicative voice"
The causative voice is a grammatical voice promoting the oblique argument of a transitive verb to an actor argument. When the causative voice is applied to a verb, its valency increases by one. If, after the application of the grammatical voice, there are two actor arguments, one of them is obligatorily demoted to an oblique argument. ...more on Wikipedia about "Causative voice"
In grammar, voice is the relationship between the action or state expressed by a verb, and its arguments (subject, object, etc.). ...more on Wikipedia about "Grammatical voice"
The impersonal passive voice is a verb voice that decreases the valency of an intransitive verb (which has valency one) to zero. ...more on Wikipedia about "Impersonal passive voice"
The mediopassive voice is a grammatical voice which subsumes the meanings of both the middle voice and the passive voice. The Proto-Indo-European language, for example, had two voices, active and mediopassive, where the middle-voice element in the mediopassive voice was dominant. Ancient Greek also had a mediopassive voice in the present, imperfect, future, perfect, and pluperfect tenses, but in the aorist and future tenses the mediopassive voice was replaced by two voices, one middle and one passive. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mediopassive voice"
Reflexive voice is the grammatical voice in which the subject of a sentence is both the subject and a direct object or indirect object of the sentence. In English this is done with pronouns ending in -self. ...more on Wikipedia about "Reflexive voice" It's my shortopedia!
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