Re: です as an proper verb?
- From: Bart Mathias <mathias@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 21:06:16 -1000
Sean wrote:
On 2006-09-23 18:06:05 -0700, Bart Mathias <mathias@xxxxxxxxxx> said:
(snip)
Have you checked Martin (_A Ref. Grammar ..._)? That strikes me as the
sort of thing he likes to wrestle with. I'd check it out myself, but
one needs a fair amount of energy to check Martin
Being very young and spry, I got down my copy of Martin, hunted for my
reading specs, and began to search through it. I have to say, I like
Martin's guitars better than his book. Anyway, before I collapsed from
exhaustion and gave up the search, I found many instances of Martin
referring to だ as "the copula," which I don't like because it seems to
me that a copula should have something on either side of it. However, on
p.348, 349 there is a "List of Verbs With Exhaulting Euphemisms" and
there in the list is da (=de aru) under the "neutral" heading.
Have we caught him calling だ a verb?
Maybe so. I'm marking your post unread, and I'll get to Martin
tomorrow. (I'm up at 2:45am to work at, then run, a race.)
If so (and from what you say it sure sounds like it), then we can wonder
whether calling だ a verb is worse than calling it a copula.
Bart
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