The inevitable ...

Thu Mar 24 03:04:20 UTC 2005

At 05:59 AM 3/23/2005, you wrote:
>If we can safely extrapolate from Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian to
>Russian, the answer is that the choice of verb depends on who
>the subject is, not who the other participant is. Long ago I saw
>a funny story about a cowboy who wanted to marry his horse:
>z^elio se oz^eniti konjem. In Russian that would presumably
>be: on xotel zhenit'sja na loshadi.
>--
>Wayles Browne, Assoc. Prof. of Linguistics

As always with Russia, it comes down to KTO KOGO...
Jules Levin

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