Re: "Smack [someone] upside the head"
| From: | Krista Casada <kcasada@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, May 23, 2007, 17:01 |
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Hmm, because it's like "beside," maybe? The verb can be "thunk" or "thwack", if you
need a little variety. And upside can be replaced by over, at least around
here.
:-)
----- Original Message -----
From: Sai Emrys <sai@...>
Date: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 11:57 am
Subject: "Smack [someone] upside the head"
To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
> Whence comes this unusual grammar?
>
> It seems to tolerate more-or-less any other term for 'head' (eg I
> recently saw it w/ 'noodle')... but not very much (any?) leeway in the
> verb, anatomy, or direction.
>
> But generally, [verb] [locative] [def. article] requires a locative
> phrase (e.g. "on top of"); why is it dropped here?
>
> - Sai
>
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