Re: Circumfixes?
From: | D Tse <exponent@...> |
Date: | Friday, June 8, 2001, 6:49 |
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>I should think this is more a pragmatic (if that's the right word)
>than a grammatical consideration. While it's true that strictly
>grammatically speaking, it's OVS, due to the nature of the verb
>"gustar", "to be pleasing", from a pragmatic standpoint it's Mom's
>apple pie SVO: "I like radio." It seems to me akin to "Mir ist
>kalt.", "I'm cold." and the antiquated "Me thinks..." (Actually,
>having just written that...Wasn't this touched on a long while ago on
>the list?)
>
>Kou
Methinks that English "to like" had the same semantic shift in Old English.
Imperative