Re: Chevraqis: a sketch

On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, SMITH,MARCUS ANTHONY wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
>
> > My adjectives were originally based on what I gleaned from two Japanese
> > grammars, so the interface probably is screwy and will remain so until I
> > learn more.
>
> Japanese i-adjectives are essentially static verbs.  If you adopt them as
> such, you can case mark the subjects of these verbs as non-volitional,
> IIRC that is accusative in your lang, so "the ball is red" would be
> something like "ball-acc red" with the various tense/mood/etc marking on
> "red".
>
> Marcus
Grr.  (At my grammars, not at you.)  I think I need to get a more detailed
Japanese grammar, because mine don't tell me things like this!  Thanks
for the pointer--I think I'll try that approach.

YHL