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In article <1993Jan20.160900.46570@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>, miner@kuhub writes:
>In article <C14BzL.9B@spss.com>, markrose@spss.com (Mark Rosenfelder) writes:
>
>>>For example it has a complete set of participles;
>> 
>>For those not familiar with Esperanto, I'll slip in a gloss: the language has
>>both active and passive participles in past, present, and future.  Is it true
>>that *no* other language has at least these participles?
>
>Gloss correct.  No, to my knowledge no natural language has a full set.  I may
>be wrong.

Attic Greek, as an example, had the following:

	present active
	present medio-passive
	future active
	future middle
	future passive
	aorist active
	aorist middle
	aorist passive
	perfect active
	perfect medio-passive

Note that the future and aorist have different formations for their middle and
passive, while in the other tenses these are identical.
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