Re: Decomposed verbs (OOP-ish but applies to any lang)
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 23, 2003, 4:02 |
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On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 10:10:56PM -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> There's some evidence that "kill", at least in English, is not "cause
> to die". If I shoot you on Sunday and you linger till Monday in extreme
> agony, then I can say "I caused you to die on Monday", but "I killed
> you on Monday" is infelicitous.
Yes, but "I killed you on Sunday" applies in that case, even though the actual
dying didn't happen until later. It's "cause to die", though not
necessarily immediately.
-Mark