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Re: Branching typologies [was: Re: "easiest" languages, SE Asian word-order typologies]

From:Andrew Chaney <adchaney@...>
Date:Friday, September 28, 2001, 16:10
on 27/09/01 19:41, tristan alexander mcleay (zsau@YAHOO.COM.AU) wrote:

> I read `John met the man in the hall that had been hading out fliers about the > upcoming came' to mean that the man is in the hall at the time of meeting, or > that the man is almost always in the hall and has perhaps removed himself for > one special occasion. Whether John was or not is unmentioned (he may be just > outside it). > > > Tristan >
To me, it is quite obvious that John, the man, and the meeting were in the hall. Whether or not the man was handing out fliers in the hall is ambiguous. andy. adchaney@louisiana.edu