Re: Non-static verbs?

On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 06:42:57PM -0400, Steg Belsky wrote:
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> Could "i hate apples" also be translated as something like "whenever i
> encounter apples, i feel a feeling of dislike towards them" ?
In fact, that would be one possible way of translating that sentence.
Using another example:
        "I like to cook"
This can be translated in one of the following ways:

1) cooking(ptcple/gerund) will(future temporal particle) make-happy(verb)
   me.
  This is analogous to your rendition of "I hate apples" above.

2) cooking(ptcple/gerund) [zero-copula] my-likes(locative noun -- meaning
   "among my likes").
  This is the noun-clause form. For past/future/other tenses, the
  appropriate temporal particle is added. This form can also be used as a
  subclause in a complex sentence, in which case, it becomes a participial
  phrase, For example, in:
        I, liking to cook, went to the kitchen
  the phrase "I, liking to cook" is identical to "cooking [zero-copula]
  among-my-likes" above.

3) cooking(ptcple/gerund) has(past temporal particle) become(verb)
   my-likes(locative, ie., "among my likes")
  Meaning, "at some point in the past, something caused me to like
  cooking (and therefore I like cooking right now)". Here, a verb is
  actually used because it indicates an event: a change from a dislike of
  cooking to a liking of cooking. This form is used when the speaker
  explicitly wants to indicate that he didn't like cooking before, but now
  he does. If the speaker meant it in a general way, or doesn't wish to
  say that he didn't like cooking before, he would use (1) or (2) instead.


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