Re: Exercise 9 No 1

Hi Jim,
I am vbery interested in details, but please, in your own time,
Nina
op 22-01-2003 21:21 schreef Jim Anderson op jimanderson_on@...:

> Hi again Jaran,
>
> Shortly after posting my last message to you, I started thinking that I
> could be wrong in calling 'saa' in your no. 1 the agent and the same could
> be said for calling 'vijjaa' the agent in no. 2. I will have to do some
> investigation to learn more about what gets the term 'agent' (kattu). This
> term is one of a group of six called kaaraka-s which assist the verb. But in
> the case of a sentence without a verb I wonder if there could be an agent.
> Another problem exists with 'atthi' in that sometimes it is used as an
> indeclinable. I'll get back to you later on this as soon as I find something
> definitive. The agent is further divided into three kinds: suddhakattaa,
> hetukattaa, & kammakattaa.