Mærik also uses active/passive participles as agent/patient nouns but it uses zero derivation, i.e. just uses the participle as a noun without further ado. From the POW of Mærik itself there is no ‘double meaning’; that lekartan can or must sometimes be translated as ‘the one who is speaking’ and sometimes as ‘the speaker’ is a complication of English grammar which is simply absent in Mærik grammar. (more…)