Re: Newbie here

Andreas wrote:

>We-ell I'm new on this list, and was recommended to write a mail introducing
>myself, so here it is.
Hello, Andreas!  Welcome on board!

>PS I've got a little question too. In a sentence like "They call me Bob",
>"they" obviously is the subject and "call" the verb. But what are "me" and
>"Bob"?
In traditonal terms, "me" is the object, and "Bob" is the predicative
complement of the object.  This definition seems especially proper for
Latin and Greek at least, where the predicative complement of the object
appears in the accusative case.

Some of the modern analyses would tell much the same thing with different
words, i.e. they would take "call Bob" to be a complex (that is compound)
predicate.  Which leads the way to one obvious question:  do any of you
know of a natlang where the translational equivalent of "call Bob" would
be a single compound verb?  And what about conlangs?

In Heichi, where composition is a normal and productive process,
composition is the most likely choice:  for example, the translation of
"They made me king" would look like "They king-made me."

Happy langdeving,

Tommaso.

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