Re: USAGE: Verbs and verb compounds

Dans un courrier dat=E9 du 22/06/99 02:08:04  , Charles a =E9crit :

> I pay the-cashier to-buy the-book.
>  N1 V1     N2      V2         N3   <--- N1 V2's the N3
>=20
i pay man-cash (and i) buy  book

>  I pay the-writer to-write the-book.
>  N1 V1     N2      P2         N3   <--- N2 P2's the N3
> =20
i pay man-write so he write book.

>  I have been using verb roots as prepositions by just changing
>  the suffix to indicate this. So the second V2 becomes P2;
>  this seems either correct or 180 degrees off. ???
> =20
you may want to tell from one another :
concomittance and finality (and, so)
successive actors (nouns, verbs, clauses)
realis and irrealis (so that, in order to)

or rather, different degrees inbetween these "extremals" ;-)=20

mathias