[Ads-l] Weird reanalysis?

Amy West medievalist at W-STS.COM
Tue Oct 5 12:44:46 UTC 2021


On 9/22/21 00:00, ADS-L automatic digest system wrote:
> Date:    Tue, 21 Sep 2021 21:33:16 -0400
> From:    Wilson Gray<hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Weird reanalysis?
>
>  From Reddit:
>
> "You're reading into it too much."
>
> Didn't that used to be:
>
> "You're reading too much into it"?
>
Is it just a difference between treating it as a particle and a . . . 
prepostion? adverb? In which case, yeah a reanalysis, but not 
necessarily weird, but telling about the speaker's underlying concepts?

---Amy West

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