Re: USAGE: Persons unknown
| From: | Jeff Rollin <jeff.rollin@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, March 18, 2007, 12:08 |
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On 18/03/07, Scotto Hlad <scott.hlad@...> wrote:
> I think that when you see that, there is part of a phrase that has been
> dropped:
>
> Crimes are often perpetrated by persons unknown to the public.
>
That's one theory. Nevertheless, in an exclusively left-branching
language you'd have
"[[[Crimes] [by [the public to] unknown persons]] often perpetrated are]]."
Assuming SOV syntax, of course.
Jeff
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