[Lexicog] Slots and slot fillers (nee "Nouns")

[Michael Cahill]

I've never heard "I waited a ferry" or a similar expression, and it sounds 
non-native to me. But could some cases of "waited" be an erosion of 
"Awaited?"  The sentence "I awaited a ferry" sounds archaic and a bit 
artificial, but at least it fits my sense of rightness.

But the original source for this discussion doesn't quite fit that, though 
perhaps John's Google examples do. I wonder if we're trying to 
artificially conflate 3 sources of this type of expression: 1) 
phonological erosion as above, 2) expressing "wait for" as "wait", a new 
way of speaking, and 3) just plain mistake. And maybe others. It would be 
helpful if we could decide which of these we're actually dealing with.

Mike Cahill




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Patrick Hanks asked: I couldn't say "I wiated a train" with this meaning. 
Could you?

Apparently you can. I googled up these coupla examples off the internet 
which have nothing to do with Puget Sound:

"... and about one hour sooner than if I had waited a train for the end of 

the morning in Bordeaux."

"I waited a train at the nearest station."

John Roberts





 
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