Karl:
> Good to hear that its acceptable somewhere other than PGH, but where did it
> come from in Scottish English if not from a calque on the Gaelic?
>
> How would you analyze it?
Dick can give his own answer, but consider:
This needs mended.
This needs to be mended.
This seems mended.
This seems to be mended.
-- i.e. we see elsewhere the structure in "needs mended". It's
a simple case of subject-to-subject raising: the subject of
_mended_ raises to become subject of _needs/seems_.
--And.
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