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--- Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@hidden.email> wrote: > En r廧onse ?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). > I figured as much. It's probably done in most of the others, too. My references for everything but Spanish and Italian are rather skimpy. I couldn't even fid a reference to whether Catalan even HAS a passive. I'm sure it must (mustn't it?) but passives aren't even mentioned in the material I have. Same for Romansch. > >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. > Probably right. If that's so (which was what I thought I remembered hearing) then Arabic is out as a source for C-a's passives. Adam