Re: THEORY: unergative

::be-'mused look at FrenchConnexion X-change::

In a message dated 2004:02:22 03:33:30 PM, christophe.grandsire@FREE.FR
writes:

>En réponse à Philippe Caquant :
>
>>I recently discovered, to my utter despair, that a
>>whole horde of linguistic concepts I hadn't reckoned
>>upon were howling under my city walls.
    Ack! ::does bestest Scoobydo imitation:: *Roh Ruh!*
Barbaric hordes of linguistic sappers o_0??

>Hehe, this list is a goldmine for anyone ready to learn new things in
>linguistics :)) .
    Sappers again I say.

    Wonder if there are any linguistic snipers...

>>  I feel the same as physicists when they
>>discovered that there were some anti-neutrons,
>>anti-protons, anti-electrons, plus some Higgs-bosons
>>and three dozens of even more suspicious characters
>>around.
>
>LOL.
    Lol as in Dutch or what? And don't look at me, I am not a "suspicious
character" ;)  I am just a lil quarky...

>>[...] Maybe I'm wrong too ? But if I burst into the saloon
>>and yell "I shot the sheriff !", looks to me that
>>there wasn't any theme and the whole sentence is the
>>rheme ?
>
>Indeed. The theme can be absent, or refer to the whole context. It can
>stay unexpressed. Only the rheme is necessary in any sentence.
[...]

In a message dated 2004:02:22 03:33:30 PM, christophe.grandsire@FREE.FR
writes:

>If Basque did as you wrote it, it would mean the subject of an intransitive
>sentence would be in the same case as the *subject* of a transitive
>sentence, and by definition this would mean the language is accusative
>:)) .
[...]
>Not at all, you're mixing things that don't fit together.
    Got linguistic anti-matter?

    Linguistic anti-matter bomb anyone? ;)



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