Re: Ditransitivity (again!)
| From: | Trebor Jung <treborjung@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, January 25, 2004, 20:13 |
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Merhaba!
Joe wrote:
"But I don't quite understand what you want...do you mean a case that contains all
the meanings of 'to' and 'for'?"
Well, how meanings of 'to' and 'for' are there to need to deal with? (Probly lots,
considering English's (hated-by-me) idiosyncracies/-ness...) All I want is a
easy/logical way of expressing dativeness without messing up anything else...
*a bit of time goes by*
Well, I guess benefactiveness and dativeness will be marked the same way...
This is so confusing!
--Trebor
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