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Re: THEORY nouns and cases (was: Verbs derived from noun cases)

From:Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>
Date:Wednesday, April 28, 2004, 4:18
"Mark P. Line" wrote:
> There are "adjectives" that work this way in Japanese that could be > described as stative verbs with a little extra willpower.
Indeed, since these so-called i-adjectives include things like "want" - which can take a direct object! - I consider it best to treat those as a subtype of verbs (which happens to correspond in large part - but not completely - to the English group "adjective"), with the na-adjectives as the true "adjective" class.
> I've seen a bivalent stative verb that means "father of"; don't recall > seeing "son" anywhere, but it wouldn't surprise me at all.
"To father" or "to beget" are perfectly good English words (if somewhat uncommon, especially beget which is downright archaic).