Re: Question about transitivity/intransitivity

Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> >  Many prominal verbs are
> >such because they require an object. "I'm shaving" is okay English,
> >but "*je rase" in French is as jarring as saying "I'm wearing" in
> >English, hence "je me rase";
>
> Yep.
My first conlang had a number of verbs that were intransitive in English
but reflexive in it, influenced by learning about such words in
Spanish.  :-)  However, because I didn't see the logic, it was fairly
random which ones were reflexive.  :-)

The reflexive was marked by a prefix l(i)- *or* by the use of reflexive
pronouns.  I'd had them borrow a number of words from English (the
conculture involved English-speaking humans landing on their planet.
:-)), which included _lunchâd_ "to have lunch" (-âd was one of the
infinitive endings), which was therefore treated as a reflexive because
it happened to start with l-.  :-)

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