"budesh" and "choc'esh"
Alina Israeli
aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU
Tue Apr 3 16:06:39 UTC 2001
Wasn't it Shcherba who discussed at length the utterance "Vam chaj ili
kofe?" with no verb in sight?
>1) What are you going to do?
>"Ja budu pit' kofe" (One cannot answer "Ja budu kofe").
>
>2) Do you want tea or kofe?
>"Ja budu kofe" (One can insert "pit'" but it is not necessary).
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Alina Israeli
LFS, American University phone: (202) 885-2387
4400 Mass. Ave., NW fax: (202) 885-1076
Washington, DC 20016
aisrael at american.edu
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