[B-Greek] Re: Indirect Object
waldo slusher
waldoslusher at yahoo.com
Thu Oct 2 16:35:58 EDT 2003
Chet:
I am in no position to refute your claims, and if I am
wrong, I would like to apologize for this
unintentional misrepresentation of the IO. Here is why
I said what I said:
Standard definition of IO is: identifies to or for
whom or what the action of the verb is performed.
I gave the ball to Spot (my dog).
The PP "to Spot" is in my understanding the IO of "I
gave." (I gave X to Y) Syntactically, "to Spot" is
subordinated to "gave" and occupies the IO slot. I am
unaware of any requirement that the IO must be placed
BEFORE the DO, but that is where I could very well be
entirely at fault. Again, my apologies for not
understanding this nuance of English syntax. Perhaps
that is why Carl asked for Linguists to respond to
this! And a linguist I am not.
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Waldo Slusher
Calgary, AB
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