Re: Italian Particles
From: | Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> |
Date: | Saturday, April 22, 2000, 14:40 |
On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Nik Taylor wrote:
>Sally Caves wrote:
>> What about sentences like, "He wants you to call him, David, I mean."
>
>That's an afterthought. You started off saying "He wants you to call
>him", but then realized that the context might not be clear enough to
>indicate that "he" is David, so you stuck on that bit.
Just peeking in: But what if it's habitual, the structure, you see?
Padraic.
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