| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 26, 2003, 0:53 |
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 02:00:07PM -0700, JS Bangs wrote:> 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.?? "Sweep" is most certainly a transitive verb. I swept. What did you sweep? I swept the floor. How is it not transitive? -Mark