Re: Natlag: Middle English impersonal verbs

Sally Caves skrev:

> Me mette.  It dreamed to me.  I think this construction exists in
> several languages to this day.  Icelandic?
Auðvitað!  There are some verbs constructed with an accusative
subject and a whole bunch that take a dative subject, though
_mig dreymir_ "I dream", _mig langar_ "I long for", _mér líkar_
"I like" are the only ones I can recall off the top of my head.
_Mér tekur á bakið/haus/..._ "My back/head/... hurts" is a
borderline case, I think.


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    "Maybe" is a strange word.  When mum or dad says it
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    means "no"!

                            (Philip Jonsson jr, age 7)

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