| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, October 21, 1998, 0:44 |
JOEL MATTHEW PEARSON wrote:> I don't know anything about Old English, but I wouldn't be surprised > if you'd hit the nail on the head. Certainly the German equivalent > "Weh ist mir" is a be+dative construction.Cool. What got me to wondering about that is the fact that Latin used _esse_ + dative for "have" sometimes. -- "It's bad manners to talk about ropes in the house of a man whose father was hanged." - Irish proverb http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/X-Files ICQ: 18656696 AOL: NikTailor