Language interference works both ways

Sunday, 6 January 2008 07:55
pne: A picture of a plush toy, halfway between a duck and a platypus, with a green body and a yellow bill and feet. (Default)
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The other day, while playing with Amy's little Fisher-Price family, she asked me, "Kanns du suchen für die Mami?".

That looks like a syntactic calque on "to look for" -- German doesn't require a preposition with "suchen".

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