Re: THEORY: more questions
| From: | Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, November 26, 2003, 1:17 |
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--- 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!? "I gave her a kiss"; "I gave
John the book yesterday"; "I told the man he'd
have to leave". Etc. Naturally, it is possible to
rearrange those to express the datives with
prepositions: "Yesterday I gave the book to
John", etc.
I'm not sure what's wrong with "give it me".
Padraic.
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