predicative adjective

elizabeth ginzburg eginzbur at MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU
Mon Mar 27 01:27:51 UTC 2000


I would like to make a comment, starting with a short form of any adjectives.
And it seems helpful to operate with incorrect present:
ona serdita= is (incorrectly) ona (est') serdita(ia), that is, serdita becomes
a part of what in russian is called imennoe skazuemoe.
That is, even in past, and even in the form serditaia sobaka byla serditaia,
or sobaka byla serdita an adjective is somehow involved in activity with
a verb 9imennoe skazuemoe - tozhe skazuemoe).
Byla serditoi - is a pure adjective, that is, passive, descriptive.
What do you think?
EG

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