Re: Attached Verbs
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, February 22, 2001, 0:56 |
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Ed Heil wrote:
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> I was with you up till here. I don't think 'become' would naturally be
> treated any differently than 'be.'
Well, become is a process, the "object" could be in another case, like
an allative or something. Finnish uses the translative for the "object"
of verbs of change, e.g., "Poika kasvoi mieheksi" = "The boy grew into a
man". Granted, ergative/absolutive still seems highly unlikely to be
used in a case like that.
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