Re: pro-anything

Dans un courrier dat=E9 du 21/04/99 21:31:15  , Ray a =E9crit :

<< ><< "Angry and frustrated, he walked" which would be more
 > like short for "Feeling angry..." (i. e. adverbial, not
 > adjectival). >>
 >
 >I would rather call it a passive gerund.
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<< Depends rather on the language.  In Latin, which was referred to in the
 original mail, they'd be perfect passive participles and nominative case,
 'agreeing' with the subject,=20

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 In late Latin it did indeed become common to use the ablative of the
 present active participle. =20

(snip) >>

I must admit my complete ignorance of that so I must be wrong and now I know=20
where sentences such as "elle marche en chantant" comes from.
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 [snip]

 >
 >In French you even may have a gerund referring to the object :
 >"il le quitta, anxieux" : "he left him (as the latter was) nervous".
 >
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<< 'anxieux' looks to me like a simple adjective. >>

yes, you're right. And if I say "il le quitta, =E9tant anxieux", (i) it soun=
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bad and (ii) it rather means that "il" is anxieux, not "le".
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But however very wrong I am, I still find it handy to develop pro-PoS in a=20
conlang referring to former, latter and next arguments, predicates and=20
clauses.

<< Ray. >>

Mathias