Clearly, I'm behind the curve...

[Arnold Zwicky]

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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