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Topics of the day:



 1. Pleonastic pronouns (?) (2)

 2. Anyone familiar with the following expressions? (3)

 3. Seeking Pictures

 4. WWW

 5. FTP ADS-L (copy to David Hale) (2)

 6. www site

 7. WWW/Gopher/ftp (2)

 8. Services for Mike Miller

 9. Suwanee (4)

 10. new (?) s/sh variation in English before /tr/ (3)

 11. New Book: Grammar in Many Voices, Marilyn Silva (2)

 12. song lyrics (6)

 13. 'supernatural' vs 'natural'

 14. Gopher is Ready

 15. Thanks

 16. Recent Black English (2)

 17. Call for abstracts: Computer-mediated discourse analysis



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Date:  Fri, 18 Nov 1994 12:09:48 GMT

From:  "Warren A. Brewer" <NCUT054[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]TWNMOE10.BITNET>

Subject: Pleonastic pronouns (?)



Rex Pyles mentions Dative in reference to constructions like, <I'm

gonna read me a good book.>



Name that tune: I'm gonna cry me a river over you.



Curious how this seems to parallel Latin phenomena. Latin grammarians

use terms like dativus (in)commodi ("dative of (dis)advantage"),

dativus ethicus ("ethical dative"), dativus symaptheticus.

These dative uses were frequently colloquial, and "pleonastic" in the

sense that the literary language found them superfluous. These

datives expressed something more personal, even "warmer" according to

Hofmann-Szantyr.



For English there's probably even a usage hierarchy for some examples:

     (1) I'm gonna cry me a river over you. (bare objective pronoun)

     (2) I'm gonna cry myself a river over you. (-self form)

     (3) I am going to cry a river over you. (expurgated, ala Stan

                            Freeberg)



                  ---Wab.