[Ads-l] Loss of the English dative "home"? / "Exit out of"

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Mon Feb 9 19:18:13 UTC 2015


On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 2:13 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> And even closer, in German (dem, einem).
>

Yes. It's a Germano-Slavic thing.


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-Wilson
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