transitivity of "expire" (fwd)

Mark A Mandel mam at THEWORLD.COM
Wed Feb 27 03:18:49 UTC 2002


On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Laurence Horn wrote:

#It's not particularly uncommon.  Joan Bresnan had a long paper on
#them back in '82 or thenabouts, citing examples like "fallen leaves",
#"well-travelled man", "well-read woman", "undescended testicle", etc.
#I don't have the article on me, but there were a number of other
#examples.

Hm, very good. Ta ever so.

-- Mark A. Mandel
   Linguist at Large



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