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Hi! Sorry that I only write now, but I haven't been at home for the past 5 days -- it was a very spontaneous decision, so no notification of absence. On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, 23:38 CEST, Gary Shannon wrote: >> fascinating grammar! Would love to see where you go >> with this. Seconded, it's definitely interesting! Did you update it? I downloaded what you've typed up until then some months ago. > Curious that I could get this far on the grammar and > never stop to consider transitive verbs!!! For some > reason it never crossed my mind, and yet such simple > utterences as "John gave the book to Mary" are pretty > convoluted in the basic grammar. But that's a _di_transitive verb. You can avoid ditransitives by dative movement. And IIRC applicatives transform transitive sentences in intransitive ones. I always forget what applicatives are and what they're doing :( I only remember Henrik once explaining me it's approximately the difference between "We speak about the book" and "We 'bespeak' the book" (note that that's grammatical in German). Greetings, Carsten -- "Miranayam cepauarą naranoaris." (Calvin nay Hobbes)