Date:  Mon, 11 Sep 1995 08:30:02 -0400

From:  "Bethany Dumas, UTK" <DUMASB[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UTKVX.UTK.EDU>

Subject: write/write to



A colleague on another list asks whether the ff. construction would raise

the eyebrows of any American linguist:



I wrote Bethany.



(compare: "I wrote to Bethany")



And, what about the ff: "I wrote back to him." vs. "I wrote him back."



Comments?



Thanks,

Bethany K. Dumas, J.D.., Ph.D. | Applied Linguistics, Language & Law

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