But what if we want to mark a subject's role with similar precision? Simple, use a voice that turns the subject into an object (and drops the regular object, and makes the verb lack subject), then stack the passive on top of it, giving us the following:
verb_stem-antiactive-passive[semantic role]
As a little justification for the somewhat odd stacking of voices, Finnish does sometimes stack morphemes with somewhat opposite voice implications.
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