Re: English question

Hmm. I'd say that "Liberal" here was the indirect object representing "For
the Liberal party", but it's kind of in transition; "He voted Liberal
Party... He voted Liberal" by which stage "Liberal" is more or less
adverbial. "He voted the party line" though, definitely isn't acceptable
British English; you'd need to say "He voted for the party line, he voted
with the party line, etc" but you still need a preposition in there. We
could do with a nice Germanic separable verb here!
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lars Henrik Mathiesen" <thorinn@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 7:18 PM
Subject: Re: English question


> > Date:         Wed, 28 Nov 2001 17:05:00 -0000
> > From: Fabian <fabian@...>
> >
> > > In my English lessons the following question occured:
> > >
> > > "He voted Liberal." - Is the 'Liberal' an adjective or an adverb?
> > > I would say it is an adverb since it is part of the verb but on the
> > other
> > > hand it describes the party.
> >
> > UK: It is a noun. It is short for "the Liberal Party".
> >
> > US: It is an adjective. He voted for the candidate who had liberal
> > policies.
> >
> > In this example, I'd go for the UK usage, as 'Liberal' was capitalised.
>
> And in Danish, it would be an adverb: Han stemte liberalt.
>
> Anyway, to vote in English usually takes a prepositional phrase: He
> voted for the Liberals --- but it does take a direct object in some
> cases: He voted the party line. (I think that example works in both
> British and US English). And that's how I read the example given.
>
> Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT
marked)