[developers] on-line demo / simple sentence

Woodley Packard sweaglesw at sweaglesw.org
Sat Apr 7 00:07:35 CEST 2018


Actually, I got the order of the arguments backwards for the ditransitive here.  The other way is much more plausible, so I rescind at least one of the '?'s :-)

X did him a favor.
X did him his homework.
? He is done his homework( by X).

> On Apr 6, 2018, at 3:03 PM, Woodley Packard <sweaglesw at sweaglesw.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> X did his neighbor a favor.
> X did his homework a favor.
> ? X did his homework him.
> ?? He is done his homework( by X).

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