Re: THEORY: "Quirky" Case -- "Quirky" Subjects and "Quirky" Objects

Hi!

Markus Miekk-oja <m13kk0@...> writes:
>...
> Reflexive pronouns in languages where reflexives only can refer to
> subjects ("syntactically nominative") are surprisingly likely to also
> refer to non-nominative subjects. Subject omission in coordinated
> sentences like 'I like porridge and hate chips' can happen in many
> languages even if like takes a dative subject and hate takes a
> nominative, or accusative one.
>
> I<1>.dat like porridge.nom and Ø<1>.acc hate chips.obl
Right, I think this works in Icelandic with subjects in dative case
and nominative case.  (In German, it doesn't, however.)  I remember a
posting about this, but don't know what keywords to use to find it is
the archives...

**Henrik

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