Re: Dealing with an idea deficit...

David Peterson wrote:
> Roger wrote:
>
> <<Can you summon up any specifics or examples from the memory banks? 150
> seems
> an awful lot.>>
>
> She was grouping verbs together that worked the same in *all* sentences.
> So
> here are two
> similar examples:
>
> (1) "to like"
> (a) I like cookies.
> (b) I like to eat.
> (c) I like for him to read.
> (d) ?I like him to read.
> (e) I like that he's okay with that.
>
> (2) "to want"
> (a) I want cookies.
> (b) I want to eat.
> (c) I want for him to read.
> (d) I want him to read.
> (e) *I want that he's okay with that.
>
> Based on the examples above, these two verbs, though very similar,
> form two distinct classes.   This is because (1e) is okay but (2e) isn't.
> ( (2d) is negligible.
That's similar to what the person I mentioned who was doing the Venn
diagrams was doing. [Parse that sentence!!] I've tried to find his/her posts
in the archive but no luck; I'm sure it was within the past year. Is he/she
still with us? Lurking? Does anyone else remember, or have the site
bookmarked?

Thanks to Sylvia for the book title.  It sounds worthwile.