Re: Ditransitivity

--- Estel Telcontar <estel_telcontar@...> wrote:
> For my all-verb language, I'm trying to figure out
> what to do with
> ditransitives like "give".  Basically, I see two
> options: either do
> away with ditransitives, or add verbal
> indirect-object marking and a
> dative case.
>
> Does anyone know if there is a way to get rid of
> ditransitives?  Id you
> don't want to have indirect objects, how can you
> deal with concepts
> like "give"?
>
> Estel
>

Well, I've never specifically tried to get rid of
DItransitives before, but I did a lang once that had
no transitives at all.  No objects were possible.  All
verbs were intransitive.  I remember none of the
vocabulary at present, but the grammar was rather
interesting (to me).

To say something like:

The man gave the book to the boy.

you'd traslate to:

man book boy gave was-given recieved.

Needless to say passive verbs were extreemly important
to the language.

Adam

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