Re: Georgian
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, June 5, 2006, 12:22 |
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On 6/4/06, Tim May <butsuri@...> wrote:
> So how is it transitive? What kind of construction is this used in?
> Isn't it just an antipassive?
OK, maybe it's intransitive. I just tend to think of transitivity as
a semantic property rather than a syntactic one. My point is, that
particular affix doesn't change the meaning of the verb; it just
removes the default direct object specification. There are other
affixes which *change* that specification to a different person.
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>