threats

[vfriedm at UCHICAGO.EDU]

I would argue that it is a real threat.
Consider this context:
I'll teach you to walk in my garden!  Take that! And that!~
And that! (each "that" accompanied by some act of physical
violence).
Best
VAF

---- Original message ----
>Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:11:45 +0700
>From: David Gil <gil at EVA.MPG.DE>  
>Subject: threats  
>To: LINGTYP at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
>
>And while I'm back in the discussion again ...
>
>Since I always complain how hard it is to get negative data
from similar 
>queries, here's a little piece of negative data with regard
to the 
>present thread:
>
>To the best of my knowledge, the varieties of colloquial
Indonesian that 
>I am familiar with have no construction to the one under
discussion.  
>(Which, as I suggested in a previous posting, I don't really
consider to 
>be a "real" threat, but nobody seemed to be very impressed by
that comment.)
>
>-- 
>David Gil
>
>Department of Linguistics
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>
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