Re: Sensible passives (was: confession: roots)

I was always under the impression that the English verb 'bear' (in the past
tense, at least) was the transitive form of passive 'born'.  Like, "She bore
a child.  The child was born." It seems that born has lost its ability to
take an agent, but at least in my mind the two verbs carry a derivational
relationship.
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Shreyas