Re: [tied] Re: Ergative Stage of PIE

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From: markodegard@...

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Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 5:08 PM

Subject: [tied] Re: Ergative Stage of PIE

>Semantically, 'kill' is a two-participant verb. To 'kill'
>without someone doing it, is impossible. And someone must
>'kill' someone. This two-participant characteristic makes
>'kill' transitive.

He kills = he does murder/slaughter = he is a murderer/works in an
abbatoir. "Kill" is also intransitive.

I shoulda used another verb.

 

[PCR]

'Kill' is never intransitive.

 

One might think of 'die' as the equivalent intransitive; then 'kill' might be 'cause someone/something to die'.

 

 

Pat

 

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