Re: Standard Average European (was: case system)

In a message dated 4/12/2008 11:07:32 AM Central Daylight Time,
rfmilly@MSN.COM writes:


> > > Similarly, perhaps, with "Er brach mir das Bein" (he broke my leg;
> > > literally, he broke me the leg).
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Philip
> > >
> >
> >Actually, that's a much better example of what I had in mind.
> >
> Plus, Romance langs. do the same, at least with body parts.
>
Well, of course they do.  It's a feature of SAE, after all.

stevo   </HTML>

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