tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31830497.post16216044459412019..comments2024-02-28T05:25:12.859-05:00Comments on English, Jack: Allowed doingBretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02870575277556244419noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31830497.post-49668165188666884402011-01-20T16:09:01.958-05:002011-01-20T16:09:01.958-05:00Hi, Rob
Glad you liked it. I think the needs ~ed ...Hi, Rob<br /><br />Glad you liked it. I think the <i>needs ~ed</i> is also idiomatic in the UK, if I recall correctly.Bretthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02870575277556244419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31830497.post-62314054520256489462011-01-20T16:06:26.684-05:002011-01-20T16:06:26.684-05:00I was just reading through your archive and was ov...I was just reading through your archive and was overjoyed to see that someone, somewhere, wrote about this phenomenon. I have one friend here who always forms such phrases as "allowed ~ing." She also uses "needs ~ed" instead of "needs to be ~ed," which my amateur brain feels like is related. She's from a fairly rural area of Ohio, in the states.Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15521909284352824086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31830497.post-87173856313849914082008-06-16T00:36:00.000-05:002008-06-16T00:36:00.000-05:00Extremely interesting! I think there is a syntacti...Extremely interesting! I think there is a syntactic blend going on there, involving at least three factors:<BR/><BR/>(1) The 'Doing X is not allowed' construction, which is perfectly normal. <BR/><BR/>(2) The fact that someone is doing the very act (whatever that is) right there, for which the -ing form is quite appropriate.<BR/><BR/>(3) The common (truncated) phrase that kids commonly use, namely 'You're not allowed'; so the actual use may be more like 'Hey, you are not allowed, doing X ...', where the -ing phrase is just hanging there, in a (pseudo-)participial construction fashion. <BR/><BR/>Having said that, I must admit that 'I don't allow Darren doing that' is quite a stretch. But then, languages do stretch, don't they ...<BR/><BR/>Thanks for an interesting entry,<BR/><BR/>Q HiguchiQ Higuchihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110305928472008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31830497.post-89212328629713069892008-06-15T22:56:00.000-05:002008-06-15T22:56:00.000-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com