Clearly, I'm behind the curve...
Arnold Zwicky
zwicky at STANFORD.EDU
Tue Feb 21 05:40:51 UTC 2012
On Feb 20, 2012, at 5:34 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
>
> WRT this structure:
>
> "… Pope Benedict XIV _conferred him with tonsure_ …"
>
> found in W:pedia.
new to me too, but there are huge numbers of occurrences of the argument structure
confer HONOREE with HONOR
as an alternative to
confer HONOR on HONOREE
argument structure alternations march on.
arnold
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