query: WANT/NEED + Adverbial

[Beverly Flanigan]

Your main source here is Beth Simon, who's on the list (Beth?).

At 07:47 PM 5/7/01 -0700, you wrote:
>one of my grad students (not the same one as in the previous note)
>is looking at WANT/NEED + Adverbial, as in
>   The dog wants out (of the house).
>
>anyone know of any studies on the phenomenon?
>
>arnold (zwicky at csli.stanford.edu)


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