more intransitive verb business (Jim Breen)



Group,

This post is for people interested in discussing the accuracy of the
list at http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/ti_list.html . Perhaps
people like Jim Breen. Or others.

Some of the verbs listed as intransitive still take direct objects
marked with を. It might be misleading to call them intransitive,
although they (with one possible exception) all have "more transitive"
relatives that it makes sense to pair them with. Examples, with
sentences from the Tanaka corpus and/or Google:

預かる
この鍵を預かってくれ。

授かる
そのピアニストは非凡な才能を授かっている。

合う
角膜の形によって、外から入ってきた光が網膜にどのように焦点を合うかが決ま
ります。

鳴る
その音が、また情けないのである。まるで小さい子供が音を鳴る靴を履いている
かのように...


Also, are the below verb pairs really related etymologically?

仕える / 使う

和える / 合う

Minor quibble: why does the intransitive column switch from being on the
right to the left, and then go back again?
--
Curt Fischer
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