Re: Strange voices
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, April 22, 2003, 12:20 |
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En réponse à Daniel Andreasson Vpc-Work :
>No, you got it right. Not confusing me and Andreas, that is. About
>me being a specialist in active languages is another matter. :)
LOL. Good anyway :)) .
>I thought it looked somewhat like an
>anti-passive as well, but not quite, since it -- as Pablo says --
>focuses on the predicate in some way. "The dog" shifts from A to P,
>but "bite" is still a predicate that takes an A subject, IINM.
>But instead it takes a P. Why is that?
Well, since this language is split-S, couldn't it be that this applicative
just turns the transitive "bite" verb into an intransitive verb using a
P-marked subject? Just like a passive just turns a transitive verb into an
intransitive one...
>Demoting the object to oblique, and thus creating an intransitive
>sentence is definitely an anti-passive.
Good, so I was not completely off ;)) .
Christophe Grandsire.
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