Re: Branching typologies [was: Re: "easiest" languages, SE Asian word-order typologies]
| From: | Andrew Chaney <adchaney@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, September 28, 2001, 16:10 |
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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