Mathias Lassailly a =E9crit:
> Daniel:=20
> > I've been thinking about making a lang which distinguishes
> > between zero-transitive, intransitive, transitive and=20
> > ditransitive=20
> > Do you have any comments?
> Only very trivial things :=20
> You could check all possible "transitive" and "ditransitive" maps. =
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> quite a few, but as Matt said a few days ago : with three dozens of=20
> "preverbs" (or cases) you round up the bunch of them.=20
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> OFF TOPIC ("me too" lines) :
> I don't use "transitive" nor "ditransitive" verbs or cases anymore. I =
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> three dozen specific preverb-cases (they could be semantically =
"refined" into=20
> thousands). As Sally said, they could be English verbs like "to get", =
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> put", "to do", etc. :
< snipped great examples >
Not trivial to me. I haven't come as far as you in my conlanging efforts
and I think I'll stick to the good ol' cases a while longer, but this is
something I'll definitely have to take a closer look at.
Daniel Andreasson