Re: Adpositions gaining new uses

Quoting Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>:

> On 2008-11-18 ROGER MILLS wrote:
> > The verbs that can occur in the construction (at least in
> > Engl.) seem limited to those of "wanting" in its various
> > tenses, and may some (near)synonyms, like "love"(?).  Is
> > that true of other langs.
>
> _Hunden/katten vill in/ut_ 'the dog/cat wants in/out_.
>
> Swedish has _vill ut/in/hit/dit/hem/tillbaka/bort/genom_
> 'wants (to go) out/in/here/there/home/back/away/through'.
>
> We can also say _vill_ + PREP + PLACENAME, e.g. _jag vill
> på bio_ 'want to go to the movies' _jag vill inte till
> skolan_ 'I don't want to go to school', _jag vill från stan_
> 'want to go/get away from the city'. There is also '
> _Jag vill runt huset_ 'I want around the house'
> which has a very specialized meaning IML.  I guess
> I'm influenced by a now dying rural usage!
>
> The only verb which can readily be substituted for _vilja_
> in these constructions is _längta_ 'long to go' as
> in _jag längtar till Grekland_ 'I'm longing to go to
> Greece'. NB _Jag längtar att åka till G._ with
> 'to go' explicified is possible but rarer. Same with
> the other examples _vill gå på bio_ etc.
>
> My examples my be influenced by Tweenese, but the usage
> is definitely adult! ;-)
In my (tween) idiolect at least, _måste_ "must, have to, need to" works in all
of those.


--
Andreas Johansson

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