Comments on: S as well as S http://noncompositional.com/2009/05/s-as-well-as-s/ Thu, 13 Jan 2011 01:44:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Jane Hudson http://noncompositional.com/2009/05/s-as-well-as-s/comment-page-1/#comment-40141 Jane Hudson Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:50:35 +0000 http://noncompositional.com/?p=353#comment-40141 <p>Hi!</p> <p>My name is Jane Hudson, i'm marketing manager at one of the most important translator forums, www.english-spanish-translator.org.</p> <p>We recently open a new directory at our forum, offering to translators more resources related to translations, and we want to put your blog on our list (http://www.english-spanish-translator.org/translator-pages/1/blogs/).</p> <p>What we are offering is to put your blog in our list, in exchange of a link on your blog to our forum, i think it's fair for both.</p> <p>if you are intrested, just let us know... don't forget that this is a way to increase your popularity ;)</p> <p>Jane Hudson janehudson@english-spanish-translator.org English-Spanish-Translator.org</p> Hi!

My name is Jane Hudson, i’m marketing manager at one of the most important translator forums, http://www.english-spanish-translator.org.

We recently open a new directory at our forum, offering to translators more resources related to translations, and we want to put your blog on our list (http://www.english-spanish-translator.org/translator-pages/1/blogs/).

What we are offering is to put your blog in our list, in exchange of a link on your blog to our forum, i think it’s fair for both.

if you are intrested, just let us know… don’t forget that this is a way to increase your popularity ;)

Jane Hudson janehudson@english-spanish-translator.org English-Spanish-Translator.org

]]> By: Russell http://noncompositional.com/2009/05/s-as-well-as-s/comment-page-1/#comment-40066 Russell Mon, 25 May 2009 07:19:51 +0000 http://noncompositional.com/?p=353#comment-40066 <p>Yeah, I guess I spoke too soon, so to speak. I think either having just one verb, or having it follow "to," or both, makes it sound normal. But, I do still find it a bit off to coordinate main VPs ("she researches the spread of disease as well as volunteers for public health agencies").</p> Yeah, I guess I spoke too soon, so to speak. I think either having just one verb, or having it follow “to,” or both, makes it sound normal. But, I do still find it a bit off to coordinate main VPs (“she researches the spread of disease as well as volunteers for public health agencies”).

]]> By: The Ridger http://noncompositional.com/2009/05/s-as-well-as-s/comment-page-1/#comment-40061 The Ridger Sun, 24 May 2009 18:39:58 +0000 http://noncompositional.com/?p=353#comment-40061 <p>I have to agree that the first two are qualitatively different from the third: "love to cook as well as eat" sounds dead normal to me.</p> I have to agree that the first two are qualitatively different from the third: “love to cook as well as eat” sounds dead normal to me.

]]> By: Russell http://noncompositional.com/2009/05/s-as-well-as-s/comment-page-1/#comment-39989 Russell Wed, 20 May 2009 22:37:55 +0000 http://noncompositional.com/?p=353#comment-39989 <p>boblinq: it may well be semantically equivalent, but that doesn't change the fact that you have a VP; nor would I like to posit a rule of to-elision when coordination of verbs will do the same thing.</p> <p>If you like, substitute "We hope to entertain as well as educate," since you can't have *We hope entertaining.</p> <p>Actually, I'm starting to like the verb coordination. S-coordination still seems weird.</p> boblinq: it may well be semantically equivalent, but that doesn’t change the fact that you have a VP; nor would I like to posit a rule of to-elision when coordination of verbs will do the same thing.

If you like, substitute “We hope to entertain as well as educate,” since you can’t have *We hope entertaining.

Actually, I’m starting to like the verb coordination. S-coordination still seems weird.

]]> By: Erik http://noncompositional.com/2009/05/s-as-well-as-s/comment-page-1/#comment-39988 Erik Wed, 20 May 2009 21:43:45 +0000 http://noncompositional.com/?p=353#comment-39988 <p>The third example feels different. The first two make me grind my teeth in linguistic agony but the third doesn't.</p> <p>Totally unrelated, I'm sure, but this reminds me of, "... the reason why is because..." where the speaker seems to be shifting direction in mid-sentence.</p> The third example feels different. The first two make me grind my teeth in linguistic agony but the third doesn’t.

Totally unrelated, I’m sure, but this reminds me of, “… the reason why is because…” where the speaker seems to be shifting direction in mid-sentence.

]]> By: bobolinq http://noncompositional.com/2009/05/s-as-well-as-s/comment-page-1/#comment-39985 bobolinq Wed, 20 May 2009 18:06:43 +0000 http://noncompositional.com/?p=353#comment-39985 <p>Is your third sentence really V(P) as well as V(P)?</p> <p>Isn't (1) "loves cooking as well as eating" the equivalent of (2) "loves to cook as well as to eat?" And isn't the relevant portion of your third sentence basically the same as (2), but with the second "to" elided?</p> Is your third sentence really V(P) as well as V(P)?

Isn’t (1) “loves cooking as well as eating” the equivalent of (2) “loves to cook as well as to eat?” And isn’t the relevant portion of your third sentence basically the same as (2), but with the second “to” elided?

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