Alternation ‘voice alternation - synthetic passive’ (Coded)

Gothic is the sole member of the Germanic family that preserves, only in the present tense, continuants of the PIE mediopassive. Hence, Gothic is the only Germanic language which displays a synthetic passive. Usually, these morphological passives have passive readings (for a discussion cf. Zanchi & Tarsi: 60-68).

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