Re: THEORY: Re : Universal Translation Language
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| Date: | Sunday, May 30, 1999, 19:14 |
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Dans un courrier dat=E9 du 29/05/99 07:59:39 , Ray a =E9crit :
> >prepositions are more plainly seen as "transitive adverbs",
> >which is unclear in English even though we use them that way:
> >"go up" versus "go up the stairs", rather than "ascend the stairs".
> =20
> Indeed - which calls into question, surely, the traditional analysis into
> 'adverbs' and 'prepositions'.
> =20
i push him up =3D i push & he (goes) up =3D transitive verb + intransitive v=
erb
i go up the stairs =3D i go & (i am) up the stairs =3D intransitive verb +=20
transitive verb
"up" is like many english verbs : you know they're transitive when... there'=
s=20
an object after them :-)
i find English very handy.
Mathias