Re: Mir ist kalt -- How to analyze this sentence?
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, June 18, 2007, 18:37 |
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On 6/18/07, Carsten Becker <carbeck@...> wrote:
> The topic already says it all. How do I analyze the sentence
> "Mir ist kalt"? That's German for "I feel cold", and breaks
> down into 1sg.DAT is cold. But what is the subject in this
> sentence? "Kalt", despite it's an adjective?
(I'd say "Despite _the fact that_ it's an adjective"... or possibly
"Despite its being an adjective".)
I imagine that a similar thing applies to sentences such as "Es sind
Enten in unserem Teich". What's the subject there? "Es"? "Enten"? What
about "Gestern waren Enten in unserem Teich"?
Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>