Degreesofvolitioninactivelanguages(wasRe:Chevraqis:asketch)

From: "Nik Taylor"

> > It can only be grammatical when you have the proper intonation, and,
> > in writing, punctuation:  "The horse, [caused to be] raced past the
barn,
> > fell down."
>
> Ah!  That does make sense, and with the right intonation isn't even
> ambiguous, altho it does still sound a bit peculiar to me.  I'd probably
> use "The horse, which was raced past the barn, fell down".  I'd been
> trying to interpret it as an active past tense, i.e., "The horse [which]
> raced past the barn fell down"
Whence the garden path, no?

Kou