14.2925, Qs: English Gerunds; Mazandarani Adjectives

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Subject: 14.2925, Qs: English Gerunds; Mazandarani Adjectives

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Date:  Sat, 25 Oct 2003 01:03:21 +0000
From:  Seth Cable <scable at mit.edu>
Subject:  Gerunds -- Breaking Up is Hard to Do...

2)
Date:  Sat, 25 Oct 2003 18:32:02 +0000
From:  Muhammad-Reza Fakhr-Rohani <rhm659 at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject:  Mazandarani comparative adjectives

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Date:  Sat, 25 Oct 2003 01:03:21 +0000
From:  Seth Cable <scable at mit.edu>
Subject:  Gerunds -- Breaking Up is Hard to Do...

Dear All,
	
I seem to remember a paper from the early seventies on these English
gerund constructions which are only grammatical if ''broken up''.  For
example:
	
Breaking up is hard to do.
* It is hard to do breaking up.
	
Eating Dave does with his father (Drinking he does with his brother).
* Dave does eating with his father...
	
I think it was by Paul Schachter, but I might be mis-remembering...
	
Does anyone know the paper I'm thinking of, or a paper which has been
written on these structures?
	
Best,
	
Seth.
	
	


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Date:  Sat, 25 Oct 2003 18:32:02 +0000
From:  Muhammad-Reza Fakhr-Rohani <rhm659 at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject:  Mazandarani comparative adjectives

Dear Linguists,

Is anybody aware of any pragmatic study on Mazandarani comparaive
adjectives?

Language-Family:  Indo-European; Code: IE

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