In Accusative^x, Verbs^x

"Between" is a preposition. Pronouns that follow prepositions are always in the accusative case, not nominative. It's a rule, not a matter of opinion. Here are some examples that wrongly use the nominative.He wrote a book about she.The girl passed between he and I.The bullet passed...

Hi,I'm really enjoying this. You're making me think. I'm going to take your points out of sequence. I think I'm still replying to your post; if I misrepresent what you're saying, please correct me. First, the summary of what I'm going to say: A lot depends on theory, and...

Hello Dawnstorm,The terminology is not happy, admittedly; "middle voice" and "ergative" belong to other linguistic contexts, as has been mentioned; but I think it can be disentangled. It may be the case that "ergative" usage was once much more common in English....

The problem I see here is a muddle of syntax, pragmatics and semantics.In most of these sentences you could make a case for elided objects, that are taken care off by context (rather than considered irrelevant, as in "I am eating."):e.g. Yes, I saw X. X = anaphoric; referring to...

I agree that the various terms are difficult to disentangle. I see the relevant taxonomy as something like this:A. Not AmbitransitiveType (i): used only intransitively (a) past participle = adj:1a. The plate fell (unaccusative)1b. The fallen plate1c. *The plate was fallen1d. *He falls the...

Maybe I'll see the usefulness of terms like ergative, unergative, accusative, and unaccusative verbs, and middle voice once I understand them. I've grown frustrated at disentangling them all in the past, and that has not encouraged me to try again! I've even noted apparent...

GG: «You mean a human is the object of the verb, rigth?» Yeah, I am confused. A human to my word is the same as water to the verb "drink". In other words, it is usually in the accusative case. «Is the agent a force of nature? Naturally occurring? Or brought about due to human...

Hello again,Unfortunately,I've put one part in my previous post wrongly.Sorry for that.It would be correct to use the preposition "toward" in the following part:"But,if the verb indicates motion,or in plain english,if you are :going toward, flying toward, traveling...

I'll try to give some information on this as a non-professional.This is how it looks like in the serbian language,and I suppose,it is very similar in all other slavic languages and also the latin language.For indicating a location the locative case of a noun is used.If the english language...

Oh, thanks a lot!In addition I would like to know, is every verb of movement concerned with tense this way?