Re: do be do be do
| From: | Joshua Shinavier <ajshinav@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, May 25, 1999, 11:53 |
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> My French lecturer recently said that every language needs teh verbs be a=
nd
> have.
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> I quickly disillusioned him, but I was wondering about teh verb 'do'. How
> essential is it? AN ddoes its essentiallity change in languages which mak=
e
> do without be or have?
Aroven does without a word for "be" (there is elvo, but its function is
somewhat different) but must state the concepts of "have" (that is, to own =
--
anything else is handled differently) and various words for "do" (e.g. to
affect a change of any kind in the environment, down to purposeful activity=
;
any more "syntactic" uses of English "do" are not applicable).
Josh
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