Re: Sensible passives (was: confession: roots)

> Date:         Tue, 8 May 2001 22:04:09 +0200
> From: BP Jonsson <bpj@...>
>
> 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 _f