Re: Requesting some challenging sentences

Hi!

Sorry that I only write now, but I haven't been at home for
the past 5 days -- it was a very spontaneous decision, so no
notification of absence.

On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, 23:38 CEST, Gary Shannon wrote:

 >> fascinating grammar! Would love to see where you go
 >> with this.

Seconded, it's definitely interesting! Did you update it? I
downloaded what you've typed up until then some months ago.

 > Curious that I could get this far on the grammar and
 > never stop to consider transitive verbs!!!  For some
 > reason it never crossed my mind, and yet such simple
 > utterences as "John gave the book to Mary" are pretty
 > convoluted in the basic grammar.

But that's a _di_transitive verb. You can avoid
ditransitives by dative movement. And IIRC applicatives
transform transitive sentences in intransitive ones. I
always forget what applicatives are and what they're
doing :( I only remember Henrik once explaining me it's
approximately the difference between "We speak about
the book" and "We 'bespeak' the book" (note that that's
grammatical in German).

Greetings,
Carsten

--
"Miranayam cepauarà naranoaris."
(Calvin nay Hobbes)

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