| From: | Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, April 21, 2000, 22:03 |
On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Sally Caves wrote:> >I thought this construction was simply dative with impersonal: "(it) >pleases me to eat manzanas." Old English has a host of these, but we've >lost the tendency now. Survives in Shakespeare's methinks.Survives in Caves meseems. P.>Sally