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Re: Fluid-S pivot in Old Albic

From:# 1 <salut_vous_autre@...>
Date:Wednesday, August 10, 2005, 4:56
All the examples of the pivots in various languages using "The man threw the
ball and fell" or another intransitive verb are interesting, but what if the
second verb is transitive?

(Because I'm not very aware of the real meaning of "pivot", if it doesn't
correspond to what I'm talking about, I'd still like to know if some
language does this)

Like, "The man threw the ball and hit" that, in english, would need an
object for "hit" to be grammatical. But a language could have a meaning like
"The man threw the ball and [the man] hit [the ball]" or, more strangely,
because it uses the opposite agent-patient roles, "The man threw the ball
and [the ball] hit [the man]".

Are there languages that would have one of the two meaning?

- Max

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