Re: OT: German particles (was Re: OT: German Imperatives)

In a message dated 5/16/2007 5:33:35 AM Central Daylight Time,
theiling@ABSINT.COM writes:


> I tried it myself once, but my problem was that there are so many
> different usages and that each one was hard to pinpoint.  I neither
> knew whether I found a good explanation for a given sentence, and I
> neither knew whether I found all possible sentences.  And when looking
> at the resulting set of sentences per particle, it was often hard to
> find a link, which was actually something I had hoped to find.
>
> Your list is quite good, actually, I think.  But you are also missing
> many usages -- which was one of my problems, too.
>
Sounds like a job for NSM.

stevo   </HTML>