Quoting Garth Wallace <gwalla@...>:
> Andreas Johansson wrote:
> > Quoting Robert Jung <RobertMJung@...>:
> >
> >>I haven't said a single sentence on this
> >>thread yet. In fact, I don't know what 'ambient' means! :)
> >
> >
> > "Surrounding; encircling" according to American Heritage.
>
> I was using it to mean a verb without any core arguments (like in "It's
> raining", except Ílion doesn't use a dummy subject). I think I picked up
> the term from the Amman-îar site. I have no idea if it's a legitimate
> grammatical term.
I call such verbs in the Klashic languages "zero-valent". I've likewise got no
idea whether that's kosher terminology.
Andreas