Re: *san,W- , "judged"? "rite"?, "journey"?

From: dgkilday57
Message: 63704
Date: 2009-03-30

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "dgkilday57" <dgkilday57@> wrote:
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> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@> wrote:
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> > > What's an 'active impersonal'?
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> > One which can take a direct object.
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> Don't they all? AFAIK they do in Finnish and Estonian. That's more or less equivalent to demanding the impersonal should exist for transitive verbs too.

Passive impersonals don't. We can say "Romam ventum est" but here <Romam> is not a transitive direct object. In my theory, Oscan <lamatir> is a pres. subj. act. impersonal, not a perf. subj. pass. one. The big difficulty is <esuf> in the Tabula Bantina, which is commonly rendered 'ipse'. If I can't regard it as an accusative, I don't have much of a theory left.

DGK