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Re: myself

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From: Larry P Gorbet ANTHROPOLOGY
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 16:00
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In article <glen.724519722@cs.wisc.edu> glen@slate.cs.wisc.edu (Glen Ecklund) writes:
>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?)
>
>I disagree.  "He and WHO did that?" sounds correct to me, and I would say it.
>Likewise, "You saw her and WHOM?", although I'm not very good about using
>"whom" when appropriate.

See my previous post.  The last-cited two questions are "echo questions".  
These are appropriate in response to a previous utterance some part of
which was unclear (or perhaps hard to believe).  For example, "He and WHO
did that?" might be said after hearing somewhat unclearly "He and R#%ty 
built the amplifier."  The syntax of echo questions is quite different from
that of "true questions", where no such preceding utterance is being
responded to.
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