A/nom P/acc V -> P/nom V/med; The main functions of the “mediopassive” marker –b-/-p- are: a) anticausative; b) agentless passive (“quasipassive” in Geniušiene’s terms); c) stative passive; d) “middle” (alias ‘potential passive’ or ‘facilitative passive’); cf. aŋa-b-ta-n [open-MED-AOR-3SG] ‘It opened/was opened/is open/can be opened’. Two syntactic varieties of the mediopassive are a) personal (P-promoting) mediopassive (A is deleted and P is promoted); b) impersonal mediopassive (A is deleted without P being promoted). Important: the grammaticality judgments are given for personal (promotional) mediopassive (impersonal mediopassive can be in principle applied to any verb in the facilitative ('it is possible to V') sense).
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