LL-L "Grammar" 2002.04.03 (04) [E]

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Grammar

I wrote:

> I was also reminded of grammatical "in college" analogous to "in
> school," but ungrammatical (at least in American) *"in unversity," which
> is covered by "in college" or "in school."
>
> Lowlanders, I wonder if it is fair to call this type of phenomenon
> (i.e., deletion of articles in certain adverbial phrases) "adverbial
> lexicalization."  Might we argue that, in addition to Low Saxon
> _tohuus'_, Dutch _thuis_ and German _zuhause_ already mentioned, adverbs
> such as "today," "tonight," "tomorrow" ("to" = "at/in"?), Low Saxon
> _vundaag'_ (< _vun dage_ < _van dage_ "from/of day") 'today', Dutch
> _vandaag_ 'today', Afrikaans _vandag_ 'today' are older, petrified
> examples of what we see in its initial stage in adverbial article
> deletion and the creation of lexicalized forms?  Why "lexicalized"?
> These are specific phrases that are entered into the lexicon.
> Evidence?  Article deletion is not grammatical in other such cases,
> occurs only sporadically in certain frequently used phrases.

Under "Administrativa" just now I used the phrase "in the future."  This
reminded me that before living in North America I used to use the
(lexicalized) non-American equivalent "in future" (e.g., "In future
please don't bother me about this.")  This appears to be just another
example, distinct from "in the future" (e.g., "He seems to think he
lives in the future.").

Similarly, in German you can say _in Zukunft_ vs _in der Zukunft_.
However, as far as I know, in Northern Low Saxon (Low German) you would
always have to say _in de Tokumst_.

Regards,
Reinhard/Ron

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