syntactic blend? or what?

[Cohen, Gerald Leonard]

I believe Arnold is right. The item below looks like a syntactic blend.
 
Gerald Cohen

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From: American Dialect Society on behalf of Arnold M. Zwicky
Sent: Tue 2/20/2007 11:03 PM
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: syntactic blend? or what?



from an NPR news bulletin, 2/16/07:

[They] doubt how much North Korea is willing to give up.

   ok: They doubt that North Korea is willing to give much up.

   or: They  wonder/don't know  how much North Korea is willing to
give up.

   but not both.

arnold

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