Re: Active again.
| From: | Markus Miekk-oja <fam.miekk-oja@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, May 21, 2003, 11:31 |
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>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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