Re: Copula
| From: | Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 19, 2007, 16:07 |
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On 3/19/07, R A Brown <ray@...> wrote:
> What I should have stated more clearly is that if a verb is transitive,
> then we must be able to have a passive form in which the direct object
> of the active verb is the subject of the passive form. it does not mean,
> of course, that other verbs may not in a particular also have a passive
> construction.
...If the language has a passive voice at all, that is?
If a language has no active/passive voice marking,
how would you distinguish a transitive verb
from an intransitive verb that often or always has
a complement?
--
Jim Henry
http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/gzb/gzb.htm
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