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Re: HELP: Relative Clauses with Postpositions

From:David Peterson <thatbluecat@...>
Date:Thursday, February 12, 2004, 7:41
Muke wrote:

<<Incidentally, depending on how literal you need your translation to be,
couldn't you just get by with this? :

    ... plain.ACC Shinar.LOC in

kind of like English would do it in ordinary speech (e.g. "a river in
Russia" and not "a river in the land of Russia").>>

You know, I never once considered it.   How liberal you think we're allowed 
to be with the Babel Text?

-David

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Muke Tever <hotblack@...>