Re: Sensible passives (was: confession: roots)
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, May 8, 2001, 20:05 |
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At 15:24 2001-05-08 -0400, Roger Mills wrote:
>Is there any natlang in which the basic verb is transitive {BORN}[agt
>(pat)]-- "Ethel BORN-ed" = Ethel had a baby, Ethel gave birth
>"Ethel BORN-ed Seymour" = E. gave birth to S. with passive "Seymour
>be-BORN-ed by Ethel" = S. was born to/of Ethel, S. was given birth to by
>Ethel--
Swedish has the transitive _föda_ "give birth", as in _Hon ska föda
imorgon_ "she is going to give birth tomorrow". What the baby does is
expressed with the passive of the same verb, e.g. _barnet ska födas
imorgon_ "the child is going to be born tomorrow".
/BP 8^)>
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