Re: THEORY: more questions

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 17:17:51 -0800, Costentin Cornomorus
<elemtilas@...> wrote:

> --- Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> wrote:
>> > That seems to leave English's indirect
>> > objects rather hanging in the
>> > blue?*
>>
>> I don't understand. I can't think of a single
>> indirect object in English
>> that isn't marked by a preposition, except for
>> possibly ill-formed utterances like
>
> Are you kidding!?
Indeed, it may seem so. I've had a bad day today. I have become that
destitute individual that linguistics teachers tell their students to work
harder or they'll become ;-) I don't know exactly why. I've been a bit of
an ass on at least one other mailing list, too. I have spent the day stuck
with an inferior brand of cola, which might serve to be an excuse, I
suppose ;-)






Paul

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