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Re: Disambiguation of arg ument reference

From:Tim May <butsuri@...>
Date:Friday, October 11, 2002, 17:37
Muke Tever writes:
 > > >Something doesn't seem right here. You can't say *"What are you putting
 > > >on?" because you're leaving out an entire argument - the object placed.
 >
 > Actually I think you can't do it because "putting on" is a different verb
 > (meaning 'to don').

Well, can you say "What are you putting into?", which doesn't have
this problem?

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Muke Tever <mktvr@...>
Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>