Re: grammatical cases & semantic roles (was: ergative/accusative)
| From: | <morphemeaddict@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, January 29, 2007, 21:43 |
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In a message dated 1/29/2007 2:11:07 PM Central Standard Time,
ray@CAROLANDRAY.PLUS.COM writes:
> What is the patient of the following
> LATIN SPANISH ESPERANTO ENGLISH
> pluit llueve pluvas it's raining
> niuit nieva neghas it's snowing
>
In English cases similar to this RAM has mentioned verbs that are inherently
anti-passive (e.g., "shout"). I believe he would say that these verbs are
inherently middle-voice.
stevo
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