Re: Syntactic differences within parts of speech
| From: | Jonathan Knibb <j_knibb@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, September 1, 2006, 12:20 |
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Postscript to previous post:
I'd be curious to know how native speakers of German feel about this. I just
used the example:
- The flower [which] I bought several weeks ago is still on the table.
....which in my rusty German (apologies for the likely mistakes) could come
out as either of the following:
- Die Blume, die/welche ich seit einigen Wochen gekauft habe, steht noch auf
dem Tisch.
- Die seit einigen Wochen [von mir?] gekaufte Blume steht noch auf dem
Tisch.
Is there a difference between the two in whether the relative clause is
restrictive in meaning or not? Can both "die" and "welche" be used, and is
there a difference in meaning?
Jonathan.
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