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Re: Vocab lists

From:Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...>
Date:Monday, June 23, 2003, 21:48
Quoting JS Bangs <jaspax@...>:

> Thomas R. Wier sikyal: > > Isn't it supposed to be an example of secondary predication, > > such as "They swept the floor clean" (= They swept the floor > > such that the floor was clean)? The two sentences clearly > > behave differently: > > > > "What did they name their child? Fafnir." > > *"What did they name their child strange? Something." > > "What did they name their child? Something strange." > > Well, that too. I'm not enough of a syntactitian to attempt to address > this question, but I will note that the two are not exactly parallel, > since "sweep" is not normally a transitive verb, while "name" is.
Really? For me, it is almost always transitive. I would hesitate on calling an intransitive construction grammatical. ========================================================================= Thomas Wier "I find it useful to meet my subjects personally, Dept. of Linguistics because our secret police don't get it right University of Chicago half the time." -- octogenarian Sheikh Zayed of 1010 E. 59th Street Abu Dhabi, to a French reporter. Chicago, IL 60637