transitivity of "expire" (fwd)

[Beverly Flanigan]

At 08:28 PM 2/26/02 -0500, you wrote:
>At 5:43 PM -0500 2/26/02, Mark A Mandel wrote:
>>On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Laurence Horn wrote:
>>
>>#At 9:26 PM -0700 2/25/02, Rudolph C Troike wrote:
>>#>I forwarded the preceding too soon -- here's the answer for the passive!
>>#
>>#Amazing!  The language keeps changing under our very eyes and ears.
>>#Whodathunkit?  I wonder if this involves a reanalysis of the common
>>#participial adjective ("driving with an expired license", etc.) as a
>>#passive rather than perfect form, which allows it to be reconstructed
>>#as "X has been expired" rather than "X has expired"?  Curiously, the
>>#only relevant (transitive) "expire" the OED lists is obsolete--
>>
>>I've actually wondered about that usage ("driving with an expired
>>license"), since the perfect participle is normally passive in English.
>>How common and productive is this usage? Is it found mostly in fixed
>>expressions like that?
>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.
>
>larry

"He's a grown man," "It's a done deal," and (<BAP) "disabled toilet."

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