Re: (In)transitive verbs

Douglas Koller, Latin & French wrote:

> Someone mentioned that their lang had different conjugational endings
> for to mark transitivity and intransitivity, which reminded me of the
> way Hungarian marks definiteness and indefiniteness, which is not the
> same as transitivity and intransitivity, I realize, but it reminded
> me anyway. But *then* I recalled the Hungarian "ikes" verbs, which,
> if I remember correctly, used to be a marking for a subclass of
> intransitive verbs:
>
> fázik - be cold
> esik - fall
> szökik - escape
> álmodik - dream
Hindi also seems to have inherited some causativity marking (which
occasionally looks like trans. marking because the base can be intrans.):
to learn /p@4`^h@na/ [p@4`^hna] in speech
to teach /p@4`^hana/ (i. e., to cause to learn)

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Shreyas