Talk:diathesis
diathesis v. voice[edit]
@Erutuon, Mahagaja, I do not know what grammars of other languages say... But at least for greek, 'voice' is just a set of morphological package of endings. It says nothing about meaning. Unfortunately these 'sets of conjugating forms' are called 'active' or 'passive' (for ancient greek, also: 'middle'.
διάθεσις on the other hand, says nothing about the forms. It is about 'disposition', meaning: Unfortunately its styles are also called 'active' (I dress someone) 'passive' (I am dresseδ by someone else), 'middle' (I am dressed by myself) or 'neutral' (I sleep: there is no action).
So, we have all kinds of combinations: voiceforms & diathesis. Confusion arises because mostly passive forms are indeed of passive diathesis too.
The wikipedia w:Diathesis leads to grammatical 'Voice'. There is also the article w:Diathesis alternation and w:el:Διάθεση (γραμματική). Thank you. ‑‑Sarri.greek ♫ | 02:54, 5 May 2020 (UTC)