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===Agency===
===Agency===
A little about agency in Rówok. Below are 6 sentences, the first of each set showing the middle voice and how agency differs between them depending on the semantic of the verb. Then follow provided active and passive examples with the same grammatical subject and main verb just for comparison. Basically it's like this: if the subject of the middle verb is the agent but not (necessarily) the patient, it is marked ergatively/actively; if it is both the agent and patient it is marked absolutively (marked here as "telic" for reasons).
A little about agency in Rówok. Below are 6 sentences, the first of each set showing the middle voice and how agency differs between them depending on the semantic of the verb. Then follow provided active and passive examples with the same grammatical subject and main verb just for comparison. Basically it's like this: if the subject of the middle verb is the agent but not (necessarily) the patient, it is marked ergatively/actively; if it is both the agent and patient it is marked in the telic. Also the subject of a passive verb is in the telic.  


1) root '''krp'''- to fight
1) root '''krp'''- to fight
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