Re: ODD VERB FORM (WAS: Llirine: introduction and phonology)

Aniye Muke Tever:

> >> In English, most series of verbs (such as "I saw X verb") only conjugate
> for
> >> person in the first verb (although you might still say "I saw X verbing"
> >> or "I saw X verbed").
> >>
> >> Some don't, but they're constructions like "I think X-NOM verbs" instead
> >> of ....
> >
> >Do You mean phrases like:  I think him to be intelligent.
>
> No.. (Er, that sounds like an odd phrase anyway...)
Well, it's certainly not colloquial, but it is found in more formal things. I think
it's a more prescriptive like thing anyway...I mean it's a direct tranlation of
Latin:
"cogito eum sapiens esse"

I mean phrases like "I
> think he is intelligent" - where 'he' is nominative, and governs 'is'.  (So
> it's really [I think] [he is intelligent], as opposed to [I see him] [being
> intelligent].)
Oh ok...sounds good to me!
>
>      *Muke!

Elliott Lash