Hi!
Joe <joe@...> writes:
> Henrik Theiling wrote:
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> >John Cowan <cowan@...> writes:
> >
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> >>I don't agree. "The Wicked Witch of the West melts" is a sentence whose
> >>subject is the WWotW, but as an answer to "What does the WWotW do?" it
> >>is not felicitous. "What does X do?" marks X as both subject and agent,
> >>and if either is not true, it doesn't work.
> >
> >Really? Interesting! Then there is a difference between German
> >and English:
> > Die Hexe schmilzt.
> > Was tut die Hexe?
> > Schmelzen.
> >
> No, that's the same in English:
>
> The witch is melting
> What's the witch doing?
> Melting.
What? Then there is a difference either between 'the wicked witch of
the west' and 'the witch' or between simple and continuous tenses.
Or do we have to start YAEGT (G=grammar). I will not be able to
participate! :-)
**Henrik