Re: Fool's-object ``whom''

From: Greg Lee (greg_at_ling.lll.hawaii.edu)
Date: 09/29/04 

Date: 29 Sep 2004 21:08:02 GMT

Ron Hardin <rhhardin@mindspring.com> wrote:
> Greg Lee wrote:
> > I don't understand how ``whom'' could be tentatively parsed as
> > the object of ``rethink''. Are there other examples where ``whom''
> > is actually the object of preceding ``rethink''? Or where any
> > animate noun phrase is the object of ``rethink''?

> A: You might want to rethink the soprano.

Yes, if it means the soprano line in music, or choice of
a certain person to sing the soprano part, or perhaps the
appropriateness of a soprano saxophone. But then it's
not an animate noun phrase, and

> B: (request for repeat) Rethink whom?

the question would be: Rethink what? 

-- 
Greg Lee <greg@ling.lll.hawaii.edu>