Re: isolating conlangs

--- Herman Miller <hmiller@...> wrote:

> You could say the English "to" in infinitives is
> really a prefix:
> "to-go", "to-eat", etc. But then you'd have to
> account for things like
> "to boldly go" and so on. And at least in American
> varieties of English,
> the verb can be omitted in some contexts leaving the
> word "to" by
> itself. ("Why didn't you go back there?" "Because I
> didn't want to.")
Meaning "to" is functioning as a sort of pro-verb
there.

ADam


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