Middle Voice in English and Arabic

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.