Re: Patient marking in active languages

Hello!

From: "Nokta Kanto" <red5_2@...>
Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2006 5:14 AM

> What does an active language do for verbs that (arguably)
> take two patients: own, be inside, overlook, ride, wear?
> Do they assign
> the "agent" role to one of the arguments, or use some
> other noun case, or
> not express such relationships as a verb clause?
I'd simply use the Experiencer role for that, i.e. dative
case (classically) or experiencer, depending on how you name
your cases. A sentence doesn't necessarily need to have an
agent. I don't understand why the verbs you gave take two
patients: sb owns/is inside of/overlooks/rides/wears sth.

Cheers,
Carsten

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