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Re: Copula

From:Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...>
Date:Monday, March 19, 2007, 16:07
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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