Fw: Error Condition Re: Re: transitivity, etc,

[R. Rankin]

Dear All,

My actual linguistic message is at the bottom of this
mess.  I just thought you might be entertained by the
literal-mindedness of the Tin Idiot at Colorado.  :-)
Bob

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> > No idea, really, though I think not, as I've never
> run into any verbs with multiple patient inflection,
.
> . .
>
> You must mean something other than the experiencer
> "transitives" like 'resemble', 'be proud of', 'be
> afraid of', and the like -- of which there are quite
a
> number.
>
> I've been collecting them, and, as you know, they
> require a stative subject and stative object in
various
> of the languages.  The subject is inevitably an
> experiencer.  In English we usually (but not always)
> translate the object using a preposition.  The
> inventory differs quite considerably from language to
> language.  One of these days I'll have enough data
for
> a real paper on the subject, but this is a whole new
> aspect to the transitivity questions we have been
> discussing the past couple of days.  John makes a
> legitimate point in questioning the "transitivity" of
> these sorts of verbs.  For those of you who were at
the
> Regina Siouan Conference and have the handout of
Siouan
> statives I did, there is a partial inventory.  I'm
> doing an "improved" version of the stative paper at
> SSILA in Jan.
>
> Bob
>