gem diaries

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Sarita,

What about this form:

@g:	pronominal reversal
*CHI:	I need to carry me.
%com:	He meant "I need you to carry me"

or the slightly CHAT-ier
@g:	pronominal reversal
*CHI:	I need 0you [*] to carry me.

By the way, regarding your son forbidding you from taking notes,
Ponori (1897) reports how at 1;6 his son produced a neologism and then
told the father to go get a pencil to write down the cute gem!  Hurrah
for individual differences!

--Brian MacWhinney