Re: A Survey

On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 23:41:45 -0400, Rob Haden <magwich78@...> wrote:

>I'm curious to see everyone's answers to the following questions:
>
>1. Does your language(s) distinguish between active ("X breaks Y"), middle
>("X breaks (apart)"), and passive ("X is broken (by Y)")?
No. The middle voice would translate with the noun in agent or patient case,
depending on the verb (X jumps; breaks X).

>2. If the answer to #1 was "yes," what method(s) does your language(s) use
>to make some/all of the above distinctions?
>
>3. What method(s) does your language(s) use to distinguish between basic
>nouns and verbs of the same root (i.e. "a hit" vs. "he hits")?
Positional, and sometimes a classifier change. The gerund/infinitive is the
same whether used as a noun or a verb; to say "a hit", you would change the
classifier at the end of the word.

-Noktakanto