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I would suggest it is just another case of semantic shift. Consider the structure <ADV deprived>, as in emotionally deprived, extend this to a phrase in which a noun is being used adverbially, e.g., sleep deprived, and then treat the adverbial noun as the object of the deprivation. One small step for language; one giant leap for linguistics.
But, my dear Fong, sleep deprived is not the way most people would use it. They would hyphenate, thusly, I am sleep-deprived. This is NOT using sleep as the subject of the verb deprive. Sleep-deprived is an adjective.
I am always surprised when I see the lengths to which descriptivists will go to say that something that is so plainly wrong might possibly be correct. I will grant you that the sentence that begins "At a time when freedom was deprived. . .." can be successfully interpreted, but when a reader has to stop to figure out what the author meant, then there has been a breakdown in effective communication.
I just looked at the first dozen or so on-line dictionaries that came up in onelook.com, and every one of those with a sample sentence used the word of to connect the verb deprive with the thing that was taken away. And the last one (the thirteenth) I looked at provided this:
To dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from possessing; to debar; to shut out from; -- with a remoter object , usually preceded by of. Online Plain Text English Dictionary
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Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Deprivation Bingley 10/19/05 05:20 AM Re: Deprivation Jackie 10/19/05 01:19 PM Re: Deprivation inselpeter 10/19/05 01:57 PM Re: Deprivation Faldage 10/20/05 12:45 AM Re: Deprivation Bingley 10/21/05 02:09 AM Re: Deprivation inselpeter 10/21/05 03:40 AM Re: Deprivation Homo Loquens 10/21/05 04:12 AM Re: Deprivation inselpeter 10/21/05 11:20 AM Re: Deprivation TEd Remington 10/21/05 11:47 AM Re: Deprivation inselpeter 10/21/05 11:49 AM Immobility musick 10/22/05 02:43 PM Re: Immobility sjmaxq 10/22/05 06:54 PM Re: Deprivation wsieber 10/21/05 06:30 AM Re: Deprivation Homo Loquens 10/21/05 07:30 AM Re: Deprivation Homo Loquens 10/21/05 07:33 AM Re: Deprivation Faldage 10/22/05 04:46 PM Re: Deprivation inselpeter 10/22/05 10:27 PM Re: Deprivation TEd Remington 10/22/05 11:50 PM Re: Deprivation Faldage 10/23/05 12:15 PM Re: Deprivation inselpeter 10/23/05 12:31 PM
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