Other tests that have been studied involve passivization ( see Impersonal passive voice ), " ne " / " en " cliticization in Italian and French, and impersonal, participial, and resultative constructions in a wide range of languages.
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The Chinese-English section's head entries are not single characters, as in traditional Chinese dictionaries, but monosyllabic and polysyllabic words, which are alphabetically collated using a newly devised system for resultative compound ( RC ) and transitive verb ( V ).
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The form with suffixed "-m " is used in subordinate clauses to connect verbs not otherwise connected, in a way analogous to Japanese "-te "; it can be translated as " and ", as a gerund, or as a resultative.
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The infix ?_ " de " is placed between the double verbs to indicate possibility or ability . ( This is not possible with " restrictive " resultative compounds such as ��w " ji�shng " " reduce-save ", i . e . " to save, economize " .)
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The majority of intransitive verbs have only a transitive causative form : " pweipwei " > " kapweipwei ", " to be stupid . " Among verbs where " ka-" is productive, only adjectives and a few resultative intransitive verbs have both intransitive and transitive causative forms.
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However the second case is distinct; such sentences are not passive voice, because the participle is being used adjectivally; Such constructs are sometimes called " false passives " or " stative " ( or " static ", or " resultative " ) passives, since they represent a state or result.
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:Absolutely standard English . " Resultative " verb / adjective constructions abound in English and elsewhere : " left stranded " " run aground " ( OK, that's not an adjective ) " kept isolated " etc . It's fairly idiomatic in that not all combinations are possible . & middot; rodii & middot; 00 : 21, 25 July 2006 ( UTC)
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Yes, there are contextual situations where ?` means think, but these situations are generally clarified with an object or resultative compliment, e . g . b?` �Q�NN P���l ( I've thought of a solution ), b?` w��O�N ( I thought about / recalled something ) . b?` by itself isn't even a full clause, it needs an object or a verbal compliment to make it unambiguously clear.
