| Sumario: | This therefore raises a question of whether Macro-Tani "middle-like" constructions are in fact middle voice constructions, or not, and (in either case) what factors will account for their similarities with and differences from middle voice constructions as they have been identified for other Trans-Himalayan languages and elsewhere. 2 Background 2.1 Middle voice typology The modern-day typology of middle voice has taken shape through studies of voice and reflexivity by [5] and [15]: Chapter 2), but received its best-known and most influential treatment in works by [13], [14]. Keywords: grammatical relations; middle voice; Sino-Tibetan languages; Trans-Himalayan languages; voice constructions EN grammatical relations middle voice Sino-Tibetan languages Trans-Himalayan languages voice constructions 215 238 24 01/18/22 20220101 NES 220101 1 Introduction Middle voice constructions are generally understood as syntactically detransitivizing, and as semantically characterized by a "low degree of event elaboration" involving a relatively affected subject ([13], [14]; among others).
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