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Re: myself

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From: Larry P Gorbet ANTHROPOLOGY
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 15:49
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In article <1992Dec16.000733.4635@memstvx1.memst.edu> connolly@memstvx1.memst.edu writes:
>_Who_ and _whom_ follow a different pattern: they *cannot* be cojoined
>to anything except _what?_ and _which_, and then only rarely.  So the
>forced accusative seen in _Me and him don't like her_ is not paralelled
>by a *Whom and him did that? (= Who(m) did he do that with?)

By traditional accounts, the problem with *_Whom and him did that_ is that 
it violates the Conjoined Structure Constraint.  That is on the non-echo
question reading, of course.  With echo questions, all bets are off---see
a (CLS?) paper by Rich Janda entitled something like "Echo Questions are
Evidence for What?"
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From: lgorbet@carina.unm.edu (Larry P Gorbet ANTHROPOLOGY)
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Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 15:49:20 GMT
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