Date:  Thu, 17 Nov 1994 10:12:20 EST

From:  Rex Pyles <REXPYLES[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MAINE.BITNET>

Subject: Re: Anyone familiar with the following expressions?



Thanks for your reply. I thought a while and it seems to me

that verbs like 'buy, get, see(as in a movie), even 'read' --

as in "What are you going to do over vacation?"

   "I'm going to read me a good book."

are used. It is as if (it seems to me right now) the pronoun

were a type of dative (if you think of underlying case grammar).

Shakespeare wrote (was it in Hamlet?) "Slay me yonder villain!"

  Ciao. Rex Pyles