Re: Verb specificity (Was: Re: Natural Order of Events)
| From: | Christophe Grandsire-Koevoets <tsela.cg@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, January 28, 2009, 16:27 |
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2009/1/28 caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...>
> > Christophe Grandsire-Koevoets <tsela.cg@...> wrote:
> >
> > "Aujourd'hui je vais au travail en voiture": Today I'm going to work
> > by car.
>
> Does this mean that there's no simple way to distinguish going to work
> in the car as the driver from going to work in the car as the passenger?
>
> Charlie
>
Well, this sentence would more likely mean that the person is driving.
Somebody who would be driven to work would more likely say "Aujourd'hui on
m'emmène au travail en voiture": today someone's taking me to work by car,
or "Aujourd'hui on me conduit au travail": today someone is driving me to
work.
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Christophe Grandsire-Koevoets.
http://christophoronomicon.blogspot.com/
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