Thursday, April 27, 2006
‘Additional accusatives in Latin and Ancient Greek: Arguments against arguments’
Additional accusatives in Latin and Ancient Greek: Arguments against arguments
Abstract. In Latin and Ancient Greek we find accusatives in places where one would not expect them: as complements of intransitive verbs and adjectives and as second complements of transitive verbs. In this paper we argue on the basis of a variety of evidence that these additional accusatives should not be analyzed as direct objects, but rather as predicate modifiers. In this way we can maintain the basic distinction between intransitive and transitive verbs.
Corien Bary
Department of Philosophy, Radboud University NijmegenPeter de Swart
Department of Linguistics, Radboud University Nijmegen
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