I thought of an A/P/F verb, too. (I missed writing in this notation. :-) )
But I think it is not adequate, because there is no change implied in
the action calling somebody a friend. Naming things, seeing things,
thinking of things is "Focusing".

Another example:
"He heard her." has "heard" as an A/F verb (please correct me if I'm wrong).
"He heard her in their garden." as well. But "in the garden" has two
possible different meanings.
"He heard her while she was in their garden." - This is the
interpretation Ram always used - the only one that can be expressed in
Saweli.
"He heard her believing that she was in their garden." - This is the way
the "He called me a friend" sentence works, and Saweli cannot encompass
its meaning (as eloquently as it uses to be).

I will think more thorrowly about this and will post it later.

Stefo



MorphemeAddict@... schrieb:
>
> In a message dated 5/13/2007 1:10:20 PM Central Daylight Time,
> sts@... writes:
>
>
>> you made me think and remember an old issue of saweli (since when it
>> used to be katanda). my "stupid" question has always been: how should
>> one adequately say "he called me a friend". i think i have a solution
>> now, and i would like to know what you think of it.
>>
>> the part of the sentence "he called me" (or "he named me", "he labeled
>> me") actually changes it's part of speech from "sentence" to
>> "preposition". "a friend" is the argument of this preposition.
>>
>> (end of solution)
>>
>> nonetheless, "he called me a friend" is an entire sentence, even though
>> it is "just" a prepositional phrase. the transitive word "called" is
>> marked to be the root of the sentence, and this fact remains even though
>> the sentence may be linked with other sentences by conjunctions, or - in
>> this case - to the argument "a friend".
>
>
> I think it could be a regular A/P/F verb, where "he" is A, "me" is P,
> and "a friend" is F. But I tend to think it would be better to use a
> case tag meaning "being, as" or just a secondary P or F. I'll have to
> look through ram's lessons to see if he has any such examples.
>
> I remember you bringing this up before. We never reached a consensus
> at the time.
>
> stevo
>
>