Re: Attached Verbs

At 2/22/01 12:34 PM +1100, you wrote:
>Most of the time when Japanese "suru" is used with a noun, I think it kind
>of verbifies it, cf "denwa" telephone -> "denwa suru" to telephone. The verb
>is conjugated just like suru as in:
>
>Michiko         o               denwa-shimashita
>michiko(a name) object  telephone-do-PST
Don't forget, you can use _suru_ with a direct object as well.

Boku ga denwa o shimashita.
"I used the telephone.", "I called."

Other examples:

Sensei ga kenkyuu-suru.
"The teacher does research."

Sensei ga kenkyuu o suru.
"The teacher does research."

Sensei ga gengogaku o kenkyuu-suru.
"The teacher does research on linguistics."

BUT
*Sensei ga gengogaku o kenykuu o suru.




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