LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Baltų kalbos; Beasmenis; Latvių kalbos; Nevalingas veiksmas; Sangrąžinės formos; Slavų kalbos; Vidinis balsas; Baltic languages; Impersonal; Involuntary action; Latvian language; Middle voice; Reflexive; Slavonic languages.
ENThe article deals with Baltic reflexives covering the semantic domain of the middle voice in a narrower sense, that is, the non-anticausative middles as illustrated in constructions like The bread cuts easily. The emphasis is on the Baltic languages, but the data of Slavonic and, to a lesser extent, Germanic are also taken into account. A detailed semantic map is offered showing the relationships between the individual types of middle-voice reflexives, and also paths of diachronic development. One of the main problems singled out for discussion is the argument structure of middle voice reflexives. While anticausatives reflect a valency-reducing operation, the middle-voice constructions discussed in this article do not. In fact, a good case can be made for an inflectional view of these reflexives, and voice would be the most natural notional domain to accommodate them. [From the publication]