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Re: THEORY: more questions

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Tuesday, November 25, 2003, 20:07
Quoting Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...>:

> On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 19:49:02 +0100, Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> > wrote: > > > Quoting Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...>: > > > >> > b.. oblique (as an aspect or mood or so) > >> > >> From Larry Trask's excellent Dictionary Of Grammatical Terms In > >> Linguistics > >> (ISBN 0415086280): > >> > >> Denoting an argument [noun] which is neither a subject nor a direct > >> object. > >> Oblique [noun]s in English are realized as objects of prepositions; in > >> some > >> other languages, they may be objects of postpositions or case-marked > >> [noun]s. > > > > 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 > > ?give it me > > for > > give it to me > > I don't know. I don't claim for one minute to be an expert in English > syntax. Maybe I'm merely failing to understand some aspect of your > statement that is at a more abstract technical level than I'm used to > encountering.
I think you're simply being a bit home-blind ATM. I'm simply speaking of sentences like give me the scissors For reasons I'm not entirely clear on, ?give me it sounds alot worse to this non-native, but I don't think it's actually ungrammatical. Andreas PS Can any of the cybernetically savvy folks here explain why I no longer get "page not found" results in MSIE, but instead get redirected to some weirdo search engine (PerfectNav.com), and how I may get it to work like normal again? I guess I'm not losing much actual time on the thing, but the sheer aggressive unhelpfulness of the thing is making me see red.

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