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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