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Article #1946Re: myself
From: Larry P Gorbet ANTHROPOLOGY
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 16:00
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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Newsgroups: sci.lang Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!lynx!carina.unm.edu!lgorbet From: lgorbet@carina.unm.edu (Larry P Gorbet ANTHROPOLOGY) Subject: Re: myself Message-ID: <9fardqa@lynx.unm.edu> Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 16:00:17 GMT Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque References: <kh-rv7a@lynx.unm.edu> <1992Dec16.000733.4635@memstvx1.memst.edu> <glen.724519722@cs.wisc.edu> Distribution: sci Lines: 21