Timeline for Why do people say "explain to me", not "explain me"?
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| Feb 16, 2016 at 19:54 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | There's also the complication that some verbs (called by some benefactives) taking two objects ('Can you get me a newspaper?') have 'for' in the transformation: 'Can you get a newspaper for me?') (and in fact the transformation may not be available: *'He finished her the cleaning.' And again, 'She's costing me a fortune' doesn't have a prepositional transformation. | |
| Feb 16, 2016 at 18:08 | history | answered | rogermue | CC BY-SA 3.0 |