Re: THEORY: Mixed erg/acc
| From: | And Rosta <a.rosta@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, March 11, 2000, 20:23 |
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Matt:
> (3) Some linguists have proposed that possessive "have" is
> derived (synchronically) by combining "be" with an adposition.
Is this Hindi or English? If English, I'm aware of such proposals
from early TG/Generative Semantics in the mid 60s, but not of any
since then. I'd be very interested to hear if they live on; I had
thought them forgotten. References and or discussion would be
gratefully received by me...
BTW, IM-eccentric-O, Mahajan's story is extremely elegant; it reminds
me of early TG. Is it published?
> (This latter analysis was also independently
> proposed by the Dutch linguist Teun Hoekstra.)
Where?
--And.