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Re: Quryak (Was:Re: Another Orthography Question)

From:Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...>
Date:Saturday, November 21, 1998, 1:06
On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, Nik Taylor wrote:

> Frank George Valoczy wrote: > > Hungarian has only one class of verbs; ie. no distinction is made btw. > > transitive and intransitive verbs. I don't know how to explain it; maybe > > if you'd specify what you don't understand? > > Do you mean that the same word is used, for example, for "die" and > "kill"?
No, we do have separate words for that, becuase those are different concepts. What I mean is that where in English you have the same word, but are used differently (syntactically) if it is transitive or intransitive. I was talking not long ago about this with my ling prof, and he said it's rather interesting. I gave him some examples, but I can't remember them off the top of my head. Give me some time and I'll tell yoyu. -------ferke Ferenc Gy. Valoczy Es to pilni'gi noliedzu! Personal page: http://www.extra.hu/svejk/index.html Tu-134 page: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Museum/7482/ railways page: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/3976/ conlang page: http://members.tripod.com/~tuonela/ Uralica: http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/3259/ Zaradi politicnega delovanja je oblast v letu 1982 razpustila: Svobodo (Laibach)