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Re: Active again.

From:Markus Miekk-oja <fam.miekk-oja@...>
Date:Wednesday, May 21, 2003, 11:31
>I hope that made sense. If you or anyone else has a better >suggestion as how to solve this syntactic problem above, I'd >be more than happy to hear it! > >Some sort of voice, like Henrik suggested, would perhaps be possible. I'm
eager to see what you, Henrik, can come up with! It's called antipassive - making an intransitive verb to behave like a transitive one, taking an AGT instead of PAT as subject - She:AGT hit him:PAT and fell:ANTIP, or, She:AGT ran and fell:ANTIP Hope that clears something up :-) (of course, there might be other solutions that I'm unaware of). - Markus Miekk-oja

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