A propos des verbes pronominaux

Passive and Antipassive in a Functional Description of French Reflexive Verbs

“…Stéfanini 1971, Ruwet 1972, Boons et al 1976 Apart from the fact that different descriptions have partly diverging classifications and labels for the different types 2 , the classification con-81 2 There is in fact a good deal of terminological and classificatory confusion in this field, especially with regard to the two last mentioned constructions: 4. is called 'neutre' by Ruwet (1972) and Boons et al (1976), 5. is called 'moyen' by Ruwet (1972), but 'à ceals two major problems. The first problem is that such a classification tends to destroy the unity of reflexivity and to make believe that reflexive constructions can be made to mean almost anything; the very unity of the se-constructions vanishes, which is sought remedied by treating the entire field of se-constructions as an exponent of the middle voice (Stéfanini 1971). But the violation of the "one form -one function" principle remains, because the different uses really do not have much in common.…”