By Frans Plank
ISBN-10: 0125581602
ISBN-13: 9780125581608
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How neat to list the NPs of the set statistically representing the "secondmost accessible" function and to declare these to be the direct objects of the language! But will it work? Well, it will not in an idiom which restricts such accessibility to subjects. But the chances of diagnosing just which function it is that offers secondmost readiness to be either relativized or refiexivized, and of labelling that function "DO", seem none too rosy. Let us take two exemplary fields, mutually fairly exotic.
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