LisaNY--Did you get a response?

[Beth in Central TX]

Hi Lisa,

I think our Latin thread has been buried, so I thought I would start a fresh thread here.

We were discussing whether or not the sometimes linking verbs (taste, feel, smell, sound, look, appear) in English can be linking and action verbs in Latin too. I asked this question on a different forum and was told that those verbs in Latin can take a predicate adjective or a direct object, but it was more common for them to take a direct object.

Did you get a response from your Henle Latin Yahoo! group?

[LisaNY]

Hi Beth,

No, I just checked this morning. I'll keep checking, and as soon as I get an answer, I'll post it. :)

[LisaNY]

Beth, this is what I've been told so far:

The answer is yes. Unfortunately, I have not been able to find this in Henle's
Grammar. In the Latin Grammar of Gildersleeve & Lodge, section 206, we read:
"Other copulative verbs[i.e., other than esse] are: videri, "to seem," nasci "to
be born," fieri "to become," evadere "to turn out," creari "to be created,"
deligi "to be chosen,' putari,"to be thought," haberi ,"to be held,"dici, "to be
said,"appellari,"to be called," nominari, "to be named. Hence the rule:
verbs of seeming, becoming, with the passiveof verbs of making, choosing,
showing, thinking and calling, take two Nominatives, one of the subject, one of the predicate.

I will post more as I get answers. :)