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Re: Non-Human Features?

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Monday, January 6, 2003, 11:02
Joseph Fatula scripsit:

> Case - Ingeminate > For a noun that is the object of the first verb and the subject of the > second. For example, "I see *you* washing the car." "He wants *the dog* to > go outside." This is in the Tazhnakt languages.
The first example is what you describe, but the second isn't: it means "He wants the event of (the dog goes outside) to come to pass." It cannot be reduced to "He wants the dog" and "The dog goes outside".
> Motion - Transitive > I've got allative (towards) and ablative (away from) variants of various > spatial cases. But in the Morgenon and Ilgoen languages there's a > transitive (through) motion form.
"Translative" is the usual name, as "transitive" means something else (verbs which have objects). -- John Cowan <jcowan@...> http://www.reutershealth.com http://www.ccil.org/~cowan .e'osai ko sarji la lojban. Please support Lojban! http://www.lojban.org