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Re: Grammar-holes: secondary predication

From:Jeff Rollin <jeff.rollin@...>
Date:Tuesday, July 17, 2007, 15:11
In the last episode, (On Tuesday 17 July 2007 13:05:15),
MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com wrote:
> In a message dated 7/17/2007 2:00:51 AM Central Daylight Time, > > philip.newton@GMAIL.COM writes: > > 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@...> > > I would say they are plain ungrammatical. > > stevo </HTML>
They are in English, but I don't see why there shouldn't be languages which normal constructions allow them as well as. ;-) Jeff -- "Please understand that there are small European principalities devoted to debating Tcl vs. Perl as a tourist attraction." -- Cameron Laird