Re: THEORY: Expressing the outcome of "productive" actions

* taliesin the storyteller said on 2005-10-26 22:47:47 +0200
> * Harald S. said on 2005-10-26 21:37:15 +0200
> > In the sentence "I shouted 'Hello everybody!'", the text 'Hello
> > everybody!' is not the shout itself but rather the wording of my shout
> > (being the acoustic consequence of me shouting) which was set free by
> > me as the agent.
>
> In Taruven the "Hello everybody" would be the same as whatever you
> call the X in "VERB about X", "VERB that X", "VERB to X" etc.
> In the first case X is usually an NP, in the middle X is a sentence and
> in the last X is... well... an infintive and
... an accusative, much like in Latin in fact. Have you read up on
raising verbs and control verbs?


t.

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