Re: THEORY: Meanings of Verbal Accidents.

In a message dated 8/10/2007 3:21:57 PM Central Daylight Time,
eldin_raigmore@YAHOO.COM writes:


> For instance, in English, the "-ing" suffix on most finite verbs means
> progressive aspect or continuing aspect or habitual aspect; and the "-ed"
> suffix on most finite verbs means past tense or perfective or completive
> aspect.
>
> But on most participles, "-ing" means active voice and "-ed" means passive
> voice.
>
> Example: if the Volkswagen passes the Ferrari, the VW is "the passing car"
> and
> the Ferrari is "the passed car".
>
> But sometimes even on participles "-ing" means imperfective or present and "-
> ed" (or "-n" if that's an allomorph) means perfective or past.
>
> For example if I have two children, a 10-y/o and a 20-y/o, one might be
> my "growing" child and the other my "grown" child.
>
I think you're confusing two uses of the past participle (in -ed/-en).  One
use is the active past participle as in "has grown", which produces "my grown
child".  This is not passive at all.
The other use *is* the passive, where it is used with "be", and this produces
"was passed" and "the passed car".

stevo   </HTML>

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