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Re: grammatical cases & semantic roles (was: ergative/accusative)

From:<morphemeaddict@...>
Date:Monday, January 29, 2007, 21:43
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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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>