Re: Adpositions gaining new uses
| From: | Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, November 17, 2008, 18:14 |
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--- On Mon, 11/17/08, Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> wrote:
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> German can omit the verb for verbs of motion (typically
> "go") in some
> situations: "Ich will auf deine Schultern" (I
> want on your shoulders
> -- which is something that my daughter actually says in
> English,
> though it's obviously a loan construction from German),
I find that a perfectly acceptable English sentence, along with the common "I
want out". I hear people, especially kids, omit "go" in a lot of contexts like
that.
--gary
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