Re: QUERY: No transitive verb in Japanese?

Bart Mathias wrote:
mirror wrote:

[...] this little book (written entirely by Japanese
authors -- obviously), says the thing Westerners call
the `object,' to which often is tacked an `o' (`wo'),
actually is an ADVERB! [...]
Has this grammatical contention stood the test of time?


In a sense. It is essentially so-defined in Japanese school grammar (国
文法), where ...を is classified as a 連用修飾語, i.e., as an adverbial.

I didn't word that quite right. Either change 語 to 句 or drop it along
with the "a" and "an."

[...]

Bart
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