Re: CHAT: New Member With Questions
| From: | David Peterson <digitalscream@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, March 17, 2001, 1:49 |
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In a message dated 3/16/01 3:15:55 PM, fortytwo@GDN.NET writes:
<< The basic sentence is "You come from where", then the "where" is moved
to the front of the sentence. In most languages, you would have to move
the whole prepositional phrase "from where" to the beginning (e.g., in
Spanish ¿De dónde eres? NOT *¿Dónde eres de?), but everyday English
allows only the object of the preposition to be moved. >>
I disagree with so-called "deep structure". I've proposed my own idea which
I call Linear Structure in which the word previous delimits what can follow.
But anyway, it's almost food time, and I don't want to explain further.
-David