USAGE: Locative (was: Verbs and verb compounds)

Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:

> (Classical Latin still has a trace of the old system, where you don't
> use 'in' and 'to' with "names of cities and small islands,"
And also, as Monty Python fans know, with "domum" (even in
English we "go home" rather than "going to home"), and also with
"urbs" (the city) and "rus" (the country).

In Mandarin qu4 'go' is purely transitive, with the destination
as the object.

--
John Cowan      http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
        You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
        You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
                Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)