Re: Standard Average European (was: case system)

On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 08:00:34PM -0400, Alex Fink wrote:

> (Kinda tangential: when Amanda was asking recently about Mirexu agreement, I
> was actually fair thrown off by the choice of "we miss you" as the verb of
> the first clause.  Kept wanting to interpret it as something other than a
> simple transitive with 1pl experiencer=subj... and this from an English
> native speaker...)
Doh!  <sigh> one thing at a time... :)  I will have to go after all the
experiencer verbs with a machete once I have the rest of the basic clause
types nailed down.

Thanks,
Amanda

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