From: "Andreas Johansson" <andjo@...>
> Quoting takatunu <takatunu@...>:
> > Andreas wrote:
> > Note that (2) is ambiguous - it can mean either that Robert is cooking
> > something, or that something is cooking Robert. It seems to me the easiest
> > to
> > say we've simply got two verbs "to cook" here, one a causative, one an
> > intransitive.
> > >>>
> >
> > Why not three verbs?
>
> Because "Robert cooks", to my knowledge, cannot be interpreted in more than
> two ways!
Actually, I think that for most animate subjects that "X cooks" cannot be
interpreted in more than _one_ way. It's only when animacy is low enough that
"X cooks" can be read in middle voice.
(A split-system?)
*Muke!
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