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Re: Grammar-holes: secondary predication

From:Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
Date:Tuesday, July 17, 2007, 6:57
On 7/16/07, Douglas Koller <laokou@...> wrote:
> I'm not sure that a language not having a structure that another does is > necessarily a "hole." Besides > > > >"We spent all night talking about I can't remember what." > > >"She bought I lost count how many kinds of cheese." > ^ > (I'd put "of" here) > > are, for me, akin to "I ran into a man that I don't remember his name." They're > out there, they're understandable, which I guess makes them grammatical on a > descriptive level, but whether as a matter of style or prescriptiveness, they > still make me cringe.
What about "I just met the woman who Tom is the son of Bill and" / "I just met the woman who Tom is the son of Bill and her", for even more grammatical weirdness? Cheers, -- Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>

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