depends + WH-clause

From Michael Palmer on Facebook this morning: Terry, it depends where you work. (where I’d usually have depends on, or maybe upon). Historically, this is transitivizing P-drop; the transitive argument structure isn’t in OED2 (1959), and at the time MWDEU (p. 329) remarked: Many commentators point out that in speech this construction can be followed … Continue reading depends + WH-clause