the challenge of explaining so-called deponent verbs on the basis of what the voice forms of those verbs communicate. In agreement with that, some grammarians contend that the term deponent is a misnomer and should not be used at all as a category of verbs. It has been suggested that it is more appropriate to call this category the dynamic middle, since the meaning in the verb involves significant movement that comes back in some way to cause the agent of the action also to become affected by that
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