Concerning my explanation of the PIE causative:
> And then you have to slap person and number endings
> on that. Sorry, you can't do that. There's no
> parallel anywhere.
There's no parallel?!
Here, take a lookey:
http://individual.utoronto.ca/michael_barrie/nounincorporation.pdf
When you're done with that, please ponder all the
examples in English of nouns converted to verbs
directly as-is:
1. I was XEROXING my ass yesterday at work.
2. KING me!
3. The company AXED ten co-workers today.
4. Were you MESSAGING me?
5. We BUSSED it to New York.
6. I'm gonna PHONE the police.
7. Mary was NURSED back to health.
8. My husband TRUCKS for a living.
There are a million more examples.
= gLeN
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