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Re: Viva SOV! (was: Re: Circumfixes?)

From:Elliott Lash <al260@...>
Date:Saturday, June 9, 2001, 16:45
ányë Matt:


One of the classic garden path sentences is "The horse raced past the barn fell
down". Looks ungrammatical, until you think about it for a
moment...

This was brought up last summer when I was at Cornell for summer courses...I
couldn't make any sense of it then, and I can't now...what does this mean??

Elliott