Re: "do" captures agent+subject

Henrik Theiling scripsit:

> Or do we have to start YAEGT (G=grammar).  I will not be able to
> participate! :-)
I fear so.  For me, "What is the witch doing?  --Melting" works only in the
mood of irony, rather like "Is the maestro still composing?  --No, he is
decomposing."

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