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Re: Strange voices

From:Wesley Parish <wes.parish@...>
Date:Wednesday, April 23, 2003, 9:56
You have your wish.

Gaelic treats many common verbs as adjectives:
Bha Calum agus Maire ag obair
Calum and Mary were working (literally: at work/ing)

I'm not sure how many verbs behave this way, as I'm not a speaker of Gaelic,
just someone who's put in a little bit of time to find out how it works.

Wesley Parish

On Wednesday 23 April 2003 09:34 pm, you wrote:
> Pablo Flores wrote: > > Daniel: > > > ... is "bite" transformed into an adjective of some kind? Like > > > "be the one who bites", and then it's a stative verb, and thus > > > takes a P subject? > > > > That's it! That's definitely it. That's what I was trying to > > convey -- the subject suddenly becomes something whose state > > is described by the verb (i. e. a Patient), and the verb can > > therefore be reinterpreted as a stative expression. Thanks a lot! > > You're welcome. :) I'll have to see if I can incorporate something similar > into Piata. > > Piata doesn't distinguish active/stative with A and P, but > control/non-control. I wonder if I can do something with this anyway. > ::starts to think:: I wonder if they expect me to actually do some work > here at work or if I'm free to conlang as much as I want... :P > > > Now I *need* to go find suitable excuses for using this voice. :) > > Who needs excuses? If it's a cool, unusual feature, use it! :) > > Now I'm just waiting for someone to tell us that this voice > exists in some natlang (ANADEW). ;) > > Daniel Andreasson
-- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."