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Re: Question for English Speakers about Secondary Predicates (also posted on ZBB)

From:JR <fuscian@...>
Date:Thursday, December 28, 2006, 15:32
on 12/28/06 5:19 PM, JR at fuscian@gmail.com wrote:

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> If I understand you correctly here, my sentiments basically agree with yours. > > The word "some" gets in the way for me here because I keep wanting to make > sentence (2) okay by interpreting it as a contrastive quantifier, like this: > "the man ate SOME meat raw (... but the REST he cooked first)." So allow me to
...snip... Of course I meant sentence (1) there. -- Josh Roth http://fuscian.freespaces.com/ "Farewell, farewell to my beloved language, Once English, now a vile orangutanguage." -Ogden Nash