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On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 7:24 PM, Roman Rausch <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >antitransitive
>
> Sorry, it should be 'unaccusative'. I got it confused with
> 'anticausative'...
>
> >No. It is not unthinkable. If it makes sense to you, do it.
> >If it turns out to be unique to your conlang, who cares, as long as
> >your conlang is consistent within itself and it makes sense to its
> >creator.
>
> Actually, it sounds wrong to me; and I'm not asking because I want to put
> it
> into my own language, but rather because it seems to occur in Quenya and
> I'd
> like to know a natural language where the same thing happens.
>
> English 'He died by cancer/the sword/a car accident' is somehow peculiar.
> Can you say ?'The window broke by a stone'?
>
I would say "He died of cancer", "He died by the sword", "He died in a car
accident".
stevo
In any case, the more I read about it, the more it seems to me that whenever
> several possibilities to indicate the agent are available, lots of
> idiosyncrasies arise with respect to their use. Still, finding a language
> where *'The door opened by the wind' is perfectly regular would clear the
> question up for me...
>
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