Timeline for Missing reflexive when there's a preposition
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| Jan 28, 2015 at 14:50 | history | edited | TimR | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 28, 2015 at 13:19 | comment | added | Araucaria - Him | @TRomano Yes, but menmtal locations don't count :D | |
| Jan 28, 2015 at 12:59 | comment | added | TimR | @Araucaria: A mental location. | |
| Jan 28, 2015 at 12:09 | comment | added | Araucaria - Him | @TRomano It doesn't matter what the preposition means on its own. It matters whether the whole prepositional phrase is a locative expression. In other words does it express a location? | |
| Jan 28, 2015 at 9:45 | vote | accept | Emanuel | ||
| Jan 27, 2015 at 22:03 | comment | added | Emanuel | To be fair though, the ngram cannot really be taken at face value as probably more than two third of the results will be "proper" oblique pronouns as in "He throw the book behind her." However, the difference between "behind him" and "behind himself" is a factor of 200 which is quite convincing. | |
| Jan 27, 2015 at 21:57 | comment | added | TimR |
You will find people using behind herself|himself etc, but they're outnumbered by those who don't.
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| Jan 27, 2015 at 21:53 | comment | added | Jonathan Spirit | Huh. Well, you can't argue with books, haha. I concede. | |
| Jan 27, 2015 at 21:35 | history | edited | TimR | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 27, 2015 at 21:34 | comment | added | TimR | I'll add an ngram as a postscript to my answer. | |
| Jan 27, 2015 at 20:51 | comment | added | Jonathan Spirit | "Beside". In this use, it's not actually saying that he's beside an area or a place or a thing. | |
| Jan 27, 2015 at 20:48 | comment | added | TimR | Which preposition isn't a preposition of location? | |
| Jan 27, 2015 at 20:41 | comment | added | Jonathan Spirit | Wikipedia has at the very least citations. This page isn't affiliated with any institutions of grammar, and neither is the only other one I found that mentions this. And that isn't an exception to this possible exception, because in this case it isn't a preposition of location. | |
| Jan 27, 2015 at 20:38 | comment | added | TimR | But even that warning has exceptions: He was beside himself with grief. | |
| Jan 27, 2015 at 20:36 | comment | added | TimR | You have greater trust in Wikipedia??? | |
| Jan 27, 2015 at 20:33 | comment | added | Jonathan Spirit | Do you have anywhere else from which to cite this? The page doesn't have any citations and I don't feel that this is correct. | |
| Jan 27, 2015 at 20:21 | history | answered | TimR | CC BY-SA 3.0 |