Abstract
This paper is about middle voice in English and Arabic. Middle voice does not exist in all languages of the world, but there are languages that express middle voice; a voice that can be described as active and as passive at the same time as it has the characteristics of both of them. The paper compares middle voice in English and Arabic focusing on the verbs that are used in this voice in both languages to show areas of similarity and difference in the kind of the verb used to express this voice in the two languages under study.
Highlights
Voice in Language: In grammar, voice is used to refer to sentences in which the verb (V)
In tackling the middle in English, the focus is on active sentences containing transitive verbs that are used intransitively with non-agent noun phrase (NP) conveying passive like meaning
Alsamarrai Ibrahim (104) and Alsayyid (78) state that besides the inflected verb pattern infaʕala, some other intransitive verbs that are inflected from their transitive ones behave like the passive in having grammatical subjects and they are used in middle voice
Summary
Voice in Language: In grammar, voice is used to refer to sentences in which the verb (V). The voice is called middle because morphologically the verb is active while semantically it is passive or in other words there is equivalence between the object of transitive (tr.) verb and the subject of intransitive (intr.) use of the same verb (Celce-Murica and Larsen-Freeman 350).
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