Timeline for "Each" — pronoun or adverb
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| Sep 13, 2014 at 15:59 | history | edited | John Lawler | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 7, 2014 at 15:40 | comment | added | John Lawler | Each other is the reciprocal pronoun, and it's got very peculiar syntax, since in comes in detachable parts. You can say Each one knows the other (one) or They each know the other (one) or They know each other. All the same. In the monstrosity of a sentence you cite, I'm not sure that's Q-shift precisely, but more likely a special rule applying only to the reciprocal each. The little grammar words like these tend to display the most grotesquely irregular syntactic phenomena. | |
| May 7, 2014 at 8:20 | comment | added | Listenever | @JohnLawler, May I ask you a question with the Q-shift? I've got this clause from OALD: "to tell two or more people who have not met before what each other's names are". Is this a kind of the shift? I could imagine this: OALD’s clause might be Q-shifted from “to tell each of two or more people who have not met before what their names are.” Can you explain the sentence, please? Related q.ELL | |
| Jun 21, 2013 at 19:20 | history | edited | John Lawler | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 21, 2013 at 18:05 | vote | accept | Sebastian Meine | ||
| Jun 15, 2013 at 18:22 | comment | added | John Lawler | Note that the original list has already been tampered with. "Participle" has slipped off, and "Adjective" has been added. Latin grammarians treated adjectives just like nouns, because they behaved just like nouns grammatically. Participles, however, were a big deal in Latin, but not so much in English, so they went back to oblivion. | |
| Jun 15, 2013 at 18:09 | comment | added | Marcos Gonzalez | Brilliant explanation. The link to the 'canonical' parts of speech is invaluable. | |
| Jun 15, 2013 at 15:13 | history | answered | John Lawler | CC BY-SA 3.0 |