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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Very much à propos, I just got a mail from our departmental secretary (the language is Danish)<br>
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Min datter er desværre gået hen og blevet syg<br>
My daughter has unfortunately gone DIRECT and become ill<br>
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You couldn't say that with <i>rask</i> 'well' - unless you are waiting for an inheritance and the person you expected to die got well again.<br>
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(This works the same way without the <i>desværre</i> 'unfortunately'.)<br>
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Hartmut Haberland<br>
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Den 01-02-2013 00:28, Nigel Vincent skrev:<br>
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Italian has a passive periphrasis constructed with the verb <i>andare</i> 'go' which can only be used with verbs which express a negative outcome. Thus:<br>
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La casa è andata distrutta 'the house was (lit. went) destroyed'<br>
La lettera è andata perduta 'the letter got (went) lost'<br>
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but not:<br>
*La casa è andata costruita 'the house went built'<br>
*La lettera è andata trovata 'the house went found'<br>
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Nigel<br>
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Professor Nigel Vincent, FBA<br>
Professor Emeritus of General & Romance Linguistics<br>
The University of Manchester<br>
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Vice-President for Research & HE Policy, The British Academy<br>
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Linguistics & English Language<br>
School of Arts, Languages and Cultures<br>
The University of Manchester<br>
Manchester M13 9PL<br>
UK<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.llc.manchester.ac.uk/subjects/lel/staff/nigel-vincent/">http://www.llc.manchester.ac.uk/subjects/lel/staff/nigel-vincent/</a><br>
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