From: dgkilday57
Message: 63704
Date: 2009-03-30
>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.
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "dgkilday57" <dgkilday57@> wrote:
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> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@> wrote:
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> > > [...]
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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.