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
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