Re: Active again.
From: | Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, May 21, 2003, 14:17 |
Hi!
Markus Miekk-oja <fam.miekk-oja@...> writes:
>...
> >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
>...
I avoided that since it's usually associated with erg/abs languages,
isn't it?
**Henrik