Re: more intransitive verb business (Jim Breen)

Curt Fischer <tentrillion@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> dixit:
>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.

Good to see someone reacting to that list.

>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。

You might notice that both 預ける and 預かる are described as "vt".
For some reason Takasugi put the latter into the Intransitive column.
(See: http://www.sf.airnet.ne.jp/~ts/japanese/message/jpnEUwEoW7XEUhMPq0e.html)

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

That's the way Takasugi did the original. It irritates me, and I
may switch them around - if I can find the time and energy.

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Jim Breen http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/
Computer Science & Software Engineering,
Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia
ジム・ブリーン@モナシュ大学
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