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L O W L A N D S - L - 15 December 2010 - Volume 04<br>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From:
<span class="gd"><span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">pbarrett</span></span><span class="gi"> </span><span class="go"><<a href="mailto:pbarrett@cox.net">pbarrett@cox.net</a>></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject:
<span class="gi">LL-L "Grammar" 2010.12.15 (01) [EN]</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">I've heard the expression
"splitting verbs" in only one social context but here it is in a
different one. Where did you get this expression and do you have any idea as to
its origin?</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Pat Barrett</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From:
R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject:
Grammar</p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Pat,<br>
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It’s a common English way of referring to separating what is perceived to be a prepositional
clitic from a verb under certain syntactic circumstances. For example, German ...</p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Du musst das Rauchen <b>aufgeben</b>.<br>
(You must give up smoking.)<br>
<br>
<b>Gib</b> das Rauchen <b>auf</b>!<br>
(Give up smoking!)<br>
<br>
As opposed to “unsplittable” compounds (with prepositional prefixes?); e.g.:<br>
<br>
Du musst ihr den Preis <b>übergeben</b>.<br>
(You must present the award to her.)<br>
<br>
<b>Übergib</b> ihr den Preis!</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">(Not *<b>Gib</b> ihr den Preis
<b>über</b>!)<br>
(Present the award to her!)<br style="">
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Regards,<br>
Reinhard/Ron<br>
Seattle, USA</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From:
<span class="gd"><span style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);">Heiko Evermann</span></span><span class="gi"> </span><span class="go"><<a href="mailto:heiko.evermann@gmx.de">heiko.evermann@gmx.de</a>></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject:
<span class="gi">LL-L "Grammar" 2010.12.15 (01) [EN]</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">> Perhaps it goes back to
an attempt at avoiding “splitting verbs.” But it is<br>
> also used with simple verbs.<br>
><br>
> Perhaps its use in interrogative constructions is old enough that the
Saxon<br>
> settlers in Britain
took it over with them.</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Well, today it is common in
English for questions and negations, but<br>
Shakespeare used it not, at least not regularly. But he sometimes did<br>
things like<br>
"What thou art promis'd; yet do I fear thy nature;"<br>
(<a href="http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Tragedy_of_Macbeth/Act_I" target="_blank">http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Tragedy_of_Macbeth/Act_I</a>)<br>
<span style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136);"><br>
Heiko</span></p>
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