Re: Chomsky's "Minimalist" paper

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From: David A. Johns
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 23:41

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In article <1992Jul23.113534.4232@athena.mit.edu> pesetsk@athena.mit.edu (David M Pesetsky) writes:

# nam est' komu pomoch' yemu
# >
# >mnye   (bylo)   pomoch'     yemu
#  me-DAT was-NEUT help-infin  him-DAT
#  `I had to help him/I was supposed to help him`
#
# [...]
#
# There are more interesting cases, like (cf. Gil Rappaport, Russian
# Linguistics circa 1986):
#
# nam est' komu pomoch' yemu

Here's one I ran into on soc.culture.soviet a couple of months ago:

        v  Kieve ix       bylo          polno
        in Kiev  them-GEN was-NEUT/SING full-NEUT/SING
        'Kiev was full of them (Russians, as I remember)'

David Johns

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