Re: Copula
| From: | Elliott Lash <erelion12@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 19, 2007, 10:56 |
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Ray wrote:
> > Are there any
> > langauges that treat the copula as a transitive
> verb?
>
> Which would mean the copula has a passive form - I
> suspect there are none.
I suspect that what you meant by 'passive form', is
'occurs in a passive construction'...then I'd agree
with you. However, Scottish Gaelic, Irish and Old
Irish all have intransitive verbs that can be
<morphologically> passive (i.e. the same form as
passive transitive verbs), but of course, this form is
<syntactically> and <semantically> used in an
impersonal construction.
-Elliott.
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