Re: Ellipsis (was: Re: Italian Particles)

> From: Raymond Brown [SMTP:ray.brown@FREEUK.COM]
>
> At 3:29 pm -0400 24/4/00, John Cowan wrote:
> >Raymond Brown scripsit:
> >
> >Are quite intelligible, yes, but then is intelligible to say "Me see
> she",
> >(means same as "I see her", not "she sees me", BTW), too.
>
> "Me see she" is not immediately intelligible and, indeed, is potentially
> ambiguous, since the cases of the pronouns are working in a sort of
> contrapuntal way to the word order.  The example IMHO is silly and proves
> nothing one way or the other about ellipsis - it is irrelevant.
>
How about "me sees she"?

-- Carlos Th