Thank you. This, as with all of your videos, is very helpful. I return to your videos often, even long after I initially learned a concept, to have my understanding fine-tuned.
Lenny and Belisi: these videos are so helpful. I'm happy to be able to make sense of the language systematically, rather than attempting to memorize a bunch of arbitrary-seeming rules. Thank you for doing this!
What Benveniste has to say (and his vb examples) plus the Skt sacrifice example as well as the middles on 168 like pauō for example give us a leg up on understanding a process that will as you said has to sink in. With thanks for the clarity
If I understand it correctly, I think it could be helpful to say some made up examples in English in stead of translating into common words. Like "Chris persuades Anna" vs "Anna persuades well" (if we imagine that as an alternative way to say Anna is good at complying), or "Chris cleaned the oven" vs "the oven cleans" (again, imagining it means the oven is cleanable). I don't know if I understand though, but am looking for feedback wether this makes sense.
Thank you. This, as with all of your videos, is very helpful. I return to your videos often, even long after I initially learned a concept, to have my understanding fine-tuned.
Lenny and Belisi: these videos are so helpful. I'm happy to be able to make sense of the language systematically, rather than attempting to memorize a bunch of arbitrary-seeming rules. Thank you for doing this!
What Benveniste has to say (and his vb examples) plus the Skt sacrifice example as well as the middles on 168 like pauō for example give us a leg up on understanding a process that will as you said has to sink in. With thanks for the clarity
this was immensely helpful thank you
This was very helpful for learning the middle voice at UC Berkeley. Do you happen to know in which Benveniste book he discusses this?
It might be "Active and Middle Voice in the Verb" of Émile Benveniste's "Problems in General Linguistics".
@@BootesVoidPointer Thanks, unfortunately the one English copy online has that section removed!
If I understand it correctly, I think it could be helpful to say some made up examples in English in stead of translating into common words. Like "Chris persuades Anna" vs "Anna persuades well" (if we imagine that as an alternative way to say Anna is good at complying), or "Chris cleaned the oven" vs "the oven cleans" (again, imagining it means the oven is cleanable). I don't know if I understand though, but am looking for feedback wether this makes sense.
Name of French linguists please 😁
Thanks for this question! The linguist mentioned is Émile Benveniste:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Émile_Benveniste
I feel like you have to be born into it to understand it :( To me it is incomprehensible.